Discriminators between neurotics who die and neurotics who live

1 March 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Vol. 59 (3) , 317-325
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb06970.x

Abstract

An increased death rate was found in patients treated in the hospital for neurosis but the reasons for this were unknown. A case note study is described in which 37 patients who were treated in the hospital for neurosis and subsequently died are compared with a cross-matched sample of treated neurotics who were alive at follow-up. Measures believed to indicate greater severity of neurosis were significantly higher in the experimental (dead) group than in the control (living) group.

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