Mental Illness in Married Pairs in a Total Population
- 1 September 1974
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 125 (586) , 293-302
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.125.3.293
Abstract
Several surveys of mental illness in husband-wife pairs have all concluded that sick couples occur in the general population with a frequency significantly in excess of the number to be expected by chance (Penrose, 1944; Gregory, 1959; Kreitman, 1962; Ryle and Hamilton, 1962; Pondet al., 1963; Nielsen, 1964). The statistical methods employed in such investigations have been criticized by Hallet al.(1971), but these authors' arguments appear to suggest that the relative excess of conjoint illness has, if anything, been under-estimated.Keywords
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