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Levels of Expressed Emotion and Relapse in Depressed Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jill M. Hooley ,
John Orley  and
John D. Teasdale
Jill M. Hooley*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
John Orley
Affiliation:
Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva
John D. Teasdale
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The relationship between spouses' levels of expressed emotion (EE) and relapse was examined in a sample of 39 depressed psychiatric hospital patients. Over a nine-month follow-up, 59% of patients with high-EE spouses relapsed, although no patients living with low-EE spouses did so. The results replicate the association found by Vaughn & Left between EE and depression, and suggest that the EE construct has predictive validity in both schizophrenic and depressed populations.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 6 , June 1986 , pp. 642 - 647
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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