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Atypical Mental Illness in a Family Including Identical Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

James Warner
James Warner*
Affiliation:
Wolverhampton and Salop, St. Crispin Hospital, Duston, Northampton
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In St. Crispin Hospital, Northampton, there are male identical twins (J.L. and P.L.) who for nearly a quarter of a century have suffered from an atypical psychosis. They were previously studied by Palmer (3). Their sister (B.L.) had a similar mental illness but she obtained relief from a leucotomy operation at an early stage. The mother was also affected, but the onset of illness in her case was later in life. There are two unaffected siblings.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 451 , November 1961 , pp. 1028 - 1029
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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1 Leonhard, K., Z. ges. Neurol. Psychiat., 1934, 149, 520—189.Google Scholar
2 Mayer-Gross, W., Slater, E., and Roth, M., Clinical Psychiatry, 1954. London: Cassell & Co.Google Scholar
3 Palmer, H., J. Ment. Sci., 1946, 92, 389.Google Scholar
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