The traditional view that there are three postpartum psychiatric disorders—the maternity blues, puerperal psychosis, and postnatal depression—is an oversimplification. The range of disorders is wide. This review focuses on those important to general psychiatrists and family practitioners. This chapter covers the postpartum psychoses, disorders of the mother-infant relationship, depression, various morbid preoccupations, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders specific to the puerperium, obsessions of child harm, and specialist teams. Bydlowski and Raoul-Duval described post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after childbirth in 1978. Long ordeals during labor led to secondary tocophobia, and the recurrence of tension, nightmares, and flashbacks toward the end of the next pregnancy.