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The Couvade Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

W. H. Trethowan  and
M. F. Conlon
W. H. Trethowan
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
M. F. Conlon
Affiliation:
All Saints Hospital, Birmingham; From the Department of Psychiatry, The University of Birmingham
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Pregnancy in their wives is known to precipitate mental illness in some husbands (Zilboorg, 1931; Freeman, 1951; Towne and Afterman, 1955). But the fact that it may more commonly cause physical symptoms seems never to have been fully investigated, and has only occasionally been reported in the medical press.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 470 , January 1965 , pp. 57 - 66
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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