Ramsauer B, et al. - In view of the observation that maternal postpartum psychoses pose a serious risk to the mother-infant interaction, researchers here investigated how different subtypes of postpartum psychosis, including acute and chronic, might differentially affect the mother-infant interaction. An acute onset of psychosis during the postpartum period (de novo or relapse) was typically related to better mother-infant interactions. In this study, they observed the highest risk of child displacement among mothers with schizophrenia, and interventions by social services were more likely. However, compared to mothers with postpartum depression, mothers with postpartum schizophrenia showed no more harm to the child or self-harm. Hence, they recommended carefully examining negative preconceptions about motherhood and schizophrenia in addition to evaluating social risk factors in patients with acute onset and chronic psychoses during the postpartum period.