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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1964) 110: 191-197. doi: 10.1192/bjp.110.465.191
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Housebound Housewives—A Follow-Up Study of a Phobic Anxiety State

A. H. ROBERTS M.B., B.S., D.P.M.1

1 Registrar, Department of Psychiatry, St. George's Hospital, London, S.W.1

1. Of thirty-eight married women, housebound by phobic anxiety, thirty-two (84 per cent.) improved with in-patient treatment but only twenty-one (55.3 per cent.) were found at follow up after 1frac12 to 16 years to be no longer restricted in travelling from home alone.

2. In reviewing the literature, a nucleus of patients with almost identical characteristics of anxiety and obsessionalism of personality and symptomatology was noted among patients described by Roth as improving with thiopentone sleep treatment, and among patients described by several authors as improving with treatment by monoamine oxidase inhibitors.

3. A gradual and later age of onset, less severe disability, marked depression and failure to relapse within six months were good prognostic features and were associated with a persistent tendency to recover in subsequent relapses.




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