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Early Life Events and Affective Disorder Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

C. Faravelli ,
E. Sacchetti ,
A. Ambonetti ,
G. Conte ,
S. Pallanti  and
A. Vita
C. Faravelli*
Affiliation:
Institute of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
E. Sacchetti
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Milan, 20100 Milan, Italy
A. Ambonetti
Affiliation:
Institute of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
G. Conte
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Milan, 20100 Milan, Italy
S. Pallanti
Affiliation:
Institute of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
A. Vita
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Milan, 20100 Milan, Italy
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The incidence of traumatic events during the first ten years of life was investigated in two groups of patients suffering from major affective disorder, as well as in mixed psychiatric patients and in healthy subjects. While there were no significant differences between the two groups of affective patients or between the two control groups, the incidence of subjects who underwent such trauma was significantly higher in depressives, compared with controls. These differences are small and are further reduced if events secondary to psychiatric disturbances of family members are excluded.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 3 , March 1986 , pp. 288 - 295
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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