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The Development of Neurosis in the Wives of Neurotic Men Part I. Symptomatology and Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Irene M. K. Ovenstone
Irene M. K. Ovenstone*
Affiliation:
MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH105HF
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Several researchers, among them Penrose (1944), Slater and Woodside (1951), Pond et al. (1963), Kreitman (1962, 1968) and others, have found that psychiatric disturbance occurs in both members of marital pairs more often than can be expected by chance. It appears that symptoms in the spouse are more evident when it is the husband who is the patient, and that neurosis rather than psychosis is associated with higher levels of disturbance in the spouse (Kreitman, 1962, 1964).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 566 , January 1973 , pp. 35 - 45
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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