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New Data on Marriage and Mental Disease: The Incidence of Psychoses in the Widowed and the Divorced

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Ørnulv Ødegård
Ørnulv Ødegård*
Affiliation:
Gaustad Mental Hospital; University of Oslo, Norway
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It may be regarded as an established fact that the incidence of mental disorder is much higher in the single than in the married. In a previous paper two possible explanations were discussed: 1. There is a selection by marriage, whereby individuals who are personally and socially handicapped tend to remain single. Among such possible marriage handicaps there are certain personality traits which correlate markedly with a predisposition towards certain forms of mental disease, in particular schizophrenia.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 417 , October 1953 , pp. 778 - 785
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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