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Mental Disorder in Married Couples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Norman Kreitman
Norman Kreitman*
Affiliation:
Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
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The primary aim of family psychiatry is to demonstrate how the mental health of family members is interrelated. It is a study in which aspirations have outstripped techniques, possibly because research workers have attempted to apply the subtlety of clinical insights to details of family dynamics. Yet only confusion can follow such attempts while basic general data are still lacking; and as Post's (1962) survey illustrates so clearly, our present certain knowledge, despite great and continuing labour, remains exiguous.

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Sociological
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 455 , July 1962 , pp. 438 - 446
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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