The characteristics of women who stay married to bipolar men.
1. Although a body of knowledge allows intervention of and effective therapy for bipolar affective behavior, only a few mental health professionals treating them have focused on the quality of their marriages, or the specific attitudes of the well spouses toward marital problems or divorce. 2. The present results showed that women married to men with bipolar affective disorder have more problems with separation-individuation than women married to men who are not bipolar. 3. Unresolved anxiety about separation from a loved object, anxiety that dates back to early childhood, may need to be discussed in detail before any progress can be made in resolving the marital difficulties.
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Family Treatment Program, Psychiatric Division, VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States