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Hysteria and parental psychiatric illness1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

C. Robert Cloninger  and
Samuel B. Guze
C. Robert Cloninger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Samuel B. Guze
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

A two-generation study of 46 families of convicted women felons showed that the daughters of sociopathic fathers had a significantly higher prevalence of hysteria than did the daughters of other fathers. The differences were significant both for daughters with hysteria plus sociopathy and for daughters with hysteria without sociopathy. The association was independent of assortative mating between sociopathic men and women with hysteria or sociopathy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1975 , pp. 27 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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