Ian F. Brockington

Ian Brockington (born 1935) is a British psychiatrist.

Education and career Ian Fraser Brockington was educated at Winchester College and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. He received his medical training at Manchester University. His doctoral thesis was on 'Heart muscle disease'.

He spent four years in Ibadan, Nigeria, alternating with training posts at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School with Professor Goodwin;

Publishing With a hobby of bookbinding, he established Eyry Press. He has written six monographs on the psychiatry of childbearing, four of which he published himself.

Menstrual psychosis is a medical condition that Brockinton proposed for a periodic display of psychosis with acute onset in a particular phase of the menstrual cycle. It is proposed as a form of severe mental illness, whose clinical features resemble those of the common form of postpartum psychosis; since most cases are considered to belong to the bipolar disorder spectrum, it is not a "disease in its own right". Episodes of menstrual psychosis have a sudden onset in a previously asymptomatic person, and are usually of brief duration, with full recovery. In most patients, Brockington states that menstrual psychosis is a self-limiting disorder, affecting only a small proportion of the 400 menstrual cycles in a woman’s life.

Publications Brockington IF (1996). Motherhood and Mental Health. Oxford Medical Publications, Oxford University Press. . Brockington IF (2006). Eileithyia's Mischief: the Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy, Parturition and the Puerperium. Bredenbury, Eyry Press. . Brockington IF (2008). Menstrual Psychosis and the Catamenial Process. Bredenbury, Eyry Press. . Brockington IF (2014). What is Worth Knowing about 'Puerperal Psychosis'. Bredenbury, Eyry Press. . Brockington IF (2017). The Psychoses of Menstruation and Childbearing. Cambridge University Press . Brockington IF (2018). Bonding Disorders: Emotional Rejection of the Infant. Bredenbury, Eyry Press. .