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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 116: 323-325. doi: 10.1192/bjp.116.532.323
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On the Genesis of Affective Illness. A Pair of Discordant Twins

I. G. THOMSON M.A., B.M., D.P.M.1

1 Consultant Psychiatrist, Whitecroft Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight

Identical twins discordant for depression are described, with the suggestion that this discordance might be explained by environmental differences found in many siblings, the well twin becoming the more extraverted and extrapunitive and making an adaptive response to a stressful event (husband's infidelity), the same precipitant on two occasions causing a serious affective illness in the submissive twin.

Submitted on June 26, 1969






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