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Psychiatric patients who marry each other

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

John Shanks  and
Paul Atkins
John Shanks*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital, London
Paul Atkins
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr John Shanks, Department of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT.
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Synopsis

Health care workers often advise patients with chronic psychiatric disability against marrying each other. A survey of a group of such marriages revealed no evidence of the predicted ill-effects, but rather a trend towards improvement after the marriage. There is a discrepancy between professional expectations and actual outcome of these marriages.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , May 1985 , pp. 377 - 382
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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