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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1965) 111: 591-594. doi: 10.1192/bjp.111.476.591
© 1965 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Some Psychiatric Observations on Pregnancy in the Unmarried Student

ROBERT GIEL M.D.1 and CECIL KIDD M.D., Ph.D., D.P.M.2

1 Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Registrar in Neurology, Dykzigt Hospital, Rotterdam, Holland
2 Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, University of Aberdeen

The prior medical records of 57 later pregnant unmarried students and of 57 controls randomly selected from the same population were examined. Both in terms of the medical content of their previous consultations and of their consultation rates, the young women who were later to have illegitimate pregnancies showed significantly more conspicuous psychiatric disability before becoming pregnant than was found among the controls.

Study of the case material illustrates the presence of certain neurotic factors operative in both the inadvertent pregnancies and the sexual relationships of these young women.

Submitted on November 2, 1964






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