Maternity Blues

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Abstract
An analysis of role playing in marriage, focusing on decision-making processes and a typology of marital patterns, based on the concepts described by Collins et al. (1971) was applied to a group of 40 consecutive male psychoneurotics referred to an out-patient clinic, and their wives. An Index of Marital Tension was also derived. In a previous paper, half the wives in the sample (52.5 per cent) were psychologically `ill' when measured on the CMI, and the remainder `well'. The present paper describes the marital patterns and their tension levels and investigates whether the marriages of the `ill' and `well' wives are characterized by different patterns and different levels of tension. In addition it explores the inter-relationship between role playing, marital tension, pathology in each spouse, duration of marriage, and neurosis in the husband.

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