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The Tattooed Psychiatric Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. L. Gittleson ,
G. D. P. Wallen  and
K. Dawson-Butterworth
N. L. Gittleson
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, 6
G. D. P. Wallen
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, 6
K. Dawson-Butterworth
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, 6
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Systematic psychiatric studies of tattooed men are rare. Lander and Kohn (1943) noted that they had a higher rate of rejection for military service on psychiatric grounds than non-tattooed men. Yamamoto et al. (1963) studied the male population of a Veterans Hospital. They compared the 65 (15 per cent) men who were tattooed with the 368 who were not. They found that the percentage of tattooed men on the psychiatric wards was not significantly higher than that on the general medical or surgical wards; the tattooed men, however, exhibited significantly more evidence of personality deviation than the non-tattooed men.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 528 , November 1969 , pp. 1249 - 1253
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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