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Psychiatry’s Susan Hatters-Friedman explains symptoms and timing of postpartum psychosis

Media | July 29, 2026 | Story by: Editorial Staff

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Parade:  Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at the School of Law, said postpartum psychosis typically emerges within weeks of childbirth, with rapidly changing psychotic, mood and cognitive symptoms.