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Childhood Experience and Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. J. Abrahams  and
F. A. Whitlock
M. J. Abrahams
Affiliation:
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
F. A. Whitlock
Affiliation:
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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The possibility of a relationship between early parental loss and mental illness, suicide, or delinquency in later life is a well-known, although by no means universally accepted, theory. In this investigation, we have attempted to compare patients with carefully matched controls and to investigate, when possible, the various categories of depression separately. Also, as we felt that a study concerned with childhood deprivation based solely on the physical absence of parents would tell us little of the daily emotional experiences of the child, we have attempted to take into account the quality of the family relationships present in childhood.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 525 , August 1969 , pp. 883 - 888
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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