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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 123, No. 5

Articles | November 01, 1966

The Wives of Drug Addicts

SUSAN D. TAYLOR; MARY WILBUR; ROBERT OSNOS

Am J Psychiatry 1966;123:585-591.

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Research Associate, American Nurses' Foundation, 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N. Y. 10019

Senior Social Worker, Greenwich House Counseling Center, New York, N. Y.

Director of Psychiatry (Courts), New York City Community Mental Health Board

1966-67, American Psychiatric Association

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The social and psychological traits of women who marry drug addicts, and the effects of drug addiction and marriage upon each other, were studied among 16 couples seen at a psychiatric outpatient clinic for the treatment of drug users. The personality characteristics of the wives were seen as determinants of their continued involvement with weak men whom they can dominate and who make only minimal adult heterosexual demands upon them.

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