The purpose of this study was to reconsider maternity blues by researching the degrees of motherhood and fatherhood in postpartum women and their husbands. Twenty-eight pairs of postpartum women and their husbands had been tested with 'maternity blues questionnaire' and 'scale of motherhood & fatherhood'. As a result, the postpartum women with higher degrees of fatherhood significantly got lower scores on the item of 'nervousness' than the postpartum women with lower degrees of fatherhood. And also the postpartum women with more elderly husbands significantly got lower scores on maternity blues than the postpartum women with younger husbands. These results suggested that postpartum women tended to be influenced by the ages of their husbands, and with their maternal 'tenderness' & 'warmth' and their paternal 'strictness' & 'vigor', they would be in their well-balanced mental conditions during the postpartum periods.

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To evaluate future depressive prone personality, scores of cooperative tendency in Yatabe-Guilford personality inventory and serum catecoal amine were investigated in 35 healthy women (average age : 25.8±6.3yrs.). Scores of cooperative tendency increased as the subjects' age increased. Those who showed both of higher cooperative score and higher cooperative scores which were expected from their age, showed higher emotional stability and tended to be adjustive. However, in this group, the level of serum adrenaline significanlty decreased as the depression scores increased, and serum dopamine level was significantly lower than others. From these, it is suggested that over-adaptive women are under risk of future depression. To discriminate depression prone personality from nervous personality, serum dopamine level seems to be an useful marker.

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Major depression is associated with hypercorticoidism, a risk factor for osteoporosis. Our purpose was to determine whether depressive character and the a little hypercorticoidism would affect the calcaneum bone strength which was measured by ultra-sound bone densitometer in healthy women. As results, it was clarified that young women who have both depressive tendencies and higher serum cortisol levels show reduced bone strength. Consequently, it is suggested that psychiatric assessment and treatment in young women who show lower level of bone strength might be a useful method to prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis in future.

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Psycosomatic disease is understood as physical symptoms caused by abnormal psychological status. Because it is a common consensus in modern medicine that the status of psyche is not visible by modern medical technics, there is a difficulty to treat such disease. "Ki" is a oriental traditional methodology that is thought as a general concept that affects on both physical and psychological area. By using this methodology, causes of psycosomatic disease are more cleared and studied more systematically. We described "Ki" method in detail, and presented cases treated by this method.

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It is important for the forming of motherhood to reinforce mother-child relationship in the early time after childbirth, and development of the motherhood often improves conation of the patient with mental disorder in puerperium to the treatment. We tried a treatment with joint hospital admission for the patients, and we had good effectiveness. We think it is significant that this treatment give some solution to not only maternal and child's but also the whole family's problem.

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Women tend to become emotionally unstable around the age of menaupose. If they experience stressful life events, they apt to depressed and even become suicidal. In Redecision Therapy, a school of Transactional Analysis, they developed a simple technique of "No-suicide contract" in which a therapist encourages patient's spontaneity to live, by clear verbal statement not to kill herself. Two depressive patients applicated this technique in the department of Obsterics and Gynecology are reported. The technique appears to be effective as preventive measures as well as therapeutic means.

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate sleep disorders of two infertile depressive women by wrist-worn activity monitoring (ACTIWATCH^<[○!R]>), subjective sleep checklist and sleep diary. The first patient was 27 years old, and her bilateral tubes and left ovary had been removed due to repeated ectopic pregnancy and dermoid cyst. The second patient was 34 years old and had bilateral obstructed tubes and uterine myoma. They were prescribed hypnotics, anti depressants and antianxiety drugs. ACTIWATCH^<[○!R]> was worn two or four weeks. In both cases, self-reported sleeping times were significantly but not so strongly correlated with those evaluated by ACTIWATCH^<[○!R]>. ACTIWATCH^<[○!R]> showed increased activity when the patients felt sleepy, while it showed decreased activity when they felt they could not sleep well. In the present two cases, physical and mental conditions evaluated with visual analogue scales were not correlated with sleeping times evaluated by ACTIWATCH^<[○!R]>. The evidence suggests that using ACTIWATCH^<[○!R]> with subjective sleep checklist and sleep diary is valid in patients with insomnia.

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