Editing Postpartum depression (section)

=== 19th century and after ===
With the 19th century came a new attitude about the relationship between female mental illness and pregnancy, childbirth, or menstruation.<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = Carlson ET |date=1967|title=Franz G. Alexander and Sheldon T. Selesnick. The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present, New York: Harper & Row, 1966, p. xvi + 471. $11.95|journal=Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences|language=en|volume=3|issue=1|pages=99–100|doi=10.1002/1520-6696(196701)3:1<99::AID-JHBS2300030129>3.0.CO;2-2|issn=1520-6696}}</ref> The famous short story, "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]", was published by [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] in this period. In the story, an unnamed woman journals her life when she is treated by her physician husband, John, for [[Hysteria|hysterical]] and depressive tendencies after the birth of their baby.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm|website=www.gutenberg.org|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref> Gilman wrote the story to protest the societal oppression of women as the result of her own experience as a patient.<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = Quawas R |s2cid=191660461|date=May 2006|title=A New Woman's Journey into Insanity: Descent and Return in The Yellow Wallpaper|journal=Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association|volume=2006|issue=105|pages=35–53|doi=10.1179/000127906805260310|issn=0001-2793}}</ref>

Also during the 19th century, gynecologists embraced the idea that female reproductive organs, and the natural processes they were involved in, were at fault for "female insanity."<ref name="Taylor_1996">{{Cite book| vauthors = Taylor V |author-link= Verta Taylor |title=Rock-a-by baby: Feminism, Self-help, and Postpartum Depression|publisher=Routledge|year=1996|isbn=978-0-415-91292-1|location=New York, NY|pages=2–6}}</ref> Approximately 10% of asylum admissions during this period are connected to "puerperal insanity," the named intersection between pregnancy or childbirth and female mental illness.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rehman AU, St Clair D, Platz C | title = Puerperal insanity in the 19th and 20th centuries | journal = The British Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 156 | issue = 6 | pages = 861–865 | date = June 1990 | pmid = 2207517 | doi = 10.1192/bjp.156.6.861 | s2cid = 33439247 | doi-access = free }}</ref> It wasn't until the onset of the twentieth century that the attitude of the scientific community shifted once again: the consensus amongst gynecologists and other medical experts was to turn away from the idea of diseased reproductive organs and instead towards more "scientific theories" that encompassed a broadening medical perspective on mental illness.<ref name="Taylor_1996" />