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Neurosis and Marital Interaction: II. Time Sharing and Social Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Norman Kreitman ,
Joyce Collins ,
Barbara Nelson  and
Jane Troop
Norman Kreitman
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10; Formerly M.R.C. Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
Joyce Collins
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Unit, Graylingwell Hospital; Formerly M.R.C. Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit, Graylingwell Hospital
Barbara Nelson
Affiliation:
Graylingwell Hospital
Jane Troop
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Clinical Research Centre, 172 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1
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This paper is concerned with certain aspects of the marital interaction of male neurotics and their wives: more specifically it was designed to test hypotheses advanced to explain the findings of an earlier study (Kreitman, 1964), partly confirmed in Part I of this inquiry. The findings in question were (i) that the patients' spouses had a higher level of morbidity than controls, a discrepancy which tended to increase with lengthening of the marriage, and (ii) that patients and their spouses had low or zero correlations on measures of personality and pathology in the early years of marriage, but with the passage of time the interspouse correlation increased, with the spouse coming increasingly to resemble the patient, especially with regard to symptoms: conversely, the control couples generally showed positive correlations early in marriage, but thereafter declined in their level of similarity.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 536 , July 1970 , pp. 47 - 58
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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