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The study examines whether three groups of pregnant women (one including women who experienced childhood maltreatment and suffered from DTD, a second including women who experienced childhood maltreatment but did not suffer from DTD, and a third group including women who did not report experiencing childhood maltreatment) differ on mental health and functioning during the prenatal period. 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The women also completed self-report measures of symptoms and functioning.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Women with DTD (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200926) had more severe symptoms of PTSD, lower quality of prenatal attachment to the fetus, lower perceptions of maternal competence, less curiosity about mental states, and more severe disruptions in mentalizing trauma and adverse relationships than women who experienced childhood maltreatment but never met the diagnostic criteria for a DTD (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200999) and women not exposed to childhood maltreatment (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009248). In contrast, women who experienced childhood maltreatment but did not develop a DTD did not differ from women not exposed to maltreatment on all domains except the level of disruptions in mentalizing trauma and adverse relationships. Women who had a DTD in childhood or adolescence also had an 18.5-fold and 25.4-fold increased risk of having a mental health disorder during pregnancy compared, respectively, to women who had experienced maltreatment without DTD and women who had not experienced maltreatment. 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