The British Journal of Psychiatry (1967) 113: 761-764. doi: 10.1192/bjp.113.500.761
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Parental Bereavement in Childhood: M.M.P.I. Profiles in a Depressed Population

IAN C. WILSON M.B., D.P.M.1, LACOE B. ALLTOP B.S., B.A.2, and W. J. BUFFALOE M.D.3

1 Research Psychiatrist, North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Raleigh, North Carolina 27602
2 Acting Director, Division of Statistics, North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Raleigh, North Carolina 27602
3 Assistant Superintendent and Unit Director, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina 27602

The M.M.P.I. profiles of 92 consecutive depressed admission patients were analysed according to the presence or absence of parental bereavement in childhood. The parentally bereaved group showed higher scores in the psychotic tetrad. In the childhood bereaved group the mean scores on the basic scales of those who had lost their mother were uniformly (except for the Mf scale) and significantly higher than the mean scores for those who had lost their father.

Submitted on July 22, 1966




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