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Personality Characteristics of Alcoholic and Depressed Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David M. Shaw*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Welsh National School of Medicine, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff CF4 7XB
David A. MacSweeney
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, W1P 8AA
Anthony L. Johnson
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Statistical Research and Services Unit, University College Hospital Medical School, 115 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AS
Julius Merry
Affiliation:
West Park Hospital, Epsom, Surrey
*
requests for reprints to D. M. Shaw.

Extract

In this study we have compared certain personality variables in alcoholic individuals, depressed subjects and in controls.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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Footnotes

A synopsis of this paper was published in the October 1974 Journal.

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