Recurrent Paternal Puerperium Psychosis: A Case at the Goma Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Center

Francois Polepole Maheshe; Albert Yemba Baruani Ahuka; Eugene Bashombe; Jean Marie Ciza

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Recurrent Paternal Puerperium Psychosis: A Case at the Goma Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Center

Francois Polepole Maheshe, Albert Yemba Baruani Ahuka, Eugene Bashombe, Jean Marie Ciza

Published in American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 10, Issue 1)

Received: 25 October 2021 Accepted: 12 November 2021 Published: 24 January 2022

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Puerperal psychosis is an acute psychiatric disorder with a predilection for women, one pregnancy in 1000. In the past, it was never mentioned in men. This disorder can be recurrent (PPR) under certain conditions and its manifestations are variable. The objective of this clinical case report is to bring to the attention of the scientific world, among the rare cases reported, the recurrent paternal puerperal psychosis that occurred in a 33-year-old male subject in our neuropsychiatric hospital of the Brot hers of Charity Saint Vincent de Paul of GOMA/NK in the DRC. The clinic had highlighted during the psychiatric observation, a delirious syndrome, an anxious agitation, a total and mixed insomnia with a personal and family psychiatric history. The questioning invading the paternal ego weakens him in front of a questioning due to the new responsibilities that some have difficulty to manage, of only one neck it can upset the concerned one what would bring it to a decompensation towards a paternal puerperal psychosis. Paternal psychosis, whether recurrent or not, is therefore a real emerging pathology that requires special attention, contrary to the old theories that referred to this entity only to women in postpartum.

Published in	American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 10, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajpn.20221001.11
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Recurrent Paternal Puerperal Psychosis, Goma, DRC

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Francois Polepole Maheshe, Albert Yemba Baruani Ahuka, Eugene Bashombe, Jean Marie Ciza. Recurrent Paternal Puerperium Psychosis: A Case at the Goma Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Center. Am J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2022;10(1):1-3. doi: 10.11648/j.ajpn.20221001.11

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Francois Polepole Maheshe

Neuropsychiatry Department, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Center of the Brothers of Charity, Goma, D. R. Congo
Albert Yemba Baruani Ahuka

Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics, Clinic International of Advanced Medicine in Kivu, Goma, D. R. Congo
Eugene Bashombe

Neuropsychiatry Department, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Center of the Brothers of Charity, Goma, D. R. Congo
Jean Marie Ciza

Neuropsychiatry Department, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Center of the Brothers of Charity, Goma, D. R. Congo

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