title: Psychiatric patients who marry each other.
abstract: Health care workers often advise patients with chronic psychiatric disability against marrying each other. A survey of a group of such marriages revealed no evidence of the predicted ill-effects, but rather a trend towards improvement after the marriage. There is a discrepancy between professional expectations and actual outcome of these marriages.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004243:Divorce; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors