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Married Couples Admitted to Mental Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Norman Kreitman
Norman Kreitman*
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M.R.C. Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, University of Edinburgh Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
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A number of studies have demonstrated that married pairs in which both partners have, or have had, a psychological illness are substantially commoner than would be expected by chance. These have been reviewed elsewhere (Kreitman, 1964; Nielsen, 1964). In most of these investigations the findings have been analysed in terms of “neuroticism” or of nonspecific “mental illness” without reference to diagnosis, and detailed attention has rarely been given to any other clinical features.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 511 , June 1968 , pp. 699 - 718
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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