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  • Essay / Postpartum psychosis in the book by Margery Kempe Summary

    And at that moment she saw, as she thought, demons opening their mouths, all aflame with burning flames as if they should have engulfing her, sometimes threatening her, sometimes menacing her, sometimes dragging and hailing her night and day during the aforementioned period” (Kempe 7). Craun, in his article Personal Accounts: The Story of Margery Kempe, argues that postpartum psychosis did not completely resolve and that Margery continued to have psychotic behavior and symptoms for the rest of her life, as she states: “Kempe continued to have psychotic symptoms throughout her life, although she sometimes considered them spiritual gifts” (Craun). This appears to be the start of Margery's postpartum psychosis episode and it only gets progressively worse.