Differences between alcoholic and non alcoholic female psychiatric patients.
Sixty-four consecutive DSM-III alcoholic female psychiatric patients (A-group) were compared with 65 non alcoholic women from the same psychiatric units. The A-women more often had nervous sisters. They were younger at the first intercourse, had had more frequent intercourses during the last year, more often had a poor relationship with their children. They had had more heterosexual partners, living-together relationships and divorces, and had more often a dependent adult relationship. The mean age of the first nervous symptoms and of coming to psychiatry was significantly lower in the A-group, and they had more suicidal attempts and criminality. During childhood, adolescence and adult age, they reacted more often to losses with acting out and alcohol abuse. Nervous problems and close contact difficulties seem to have manifested themselves mostly before the alcohol abuse was established.
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Psychiatric Department B, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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D000184:Acting Out; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D003415:Crime; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012725:Sexual Behavior