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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 124, No. 1

Articles | July 01, 1967

Sociopathic Personality in Identical Twins in a Set of Dizygotic Triplets

THOMAS L. TRUNNELL

Am J Psychiatry 1967;124:43-51.

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Psychiatric Clinic, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, 1600 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94115

1967-68, American Psychiatric Association

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The manifestation of sociopathic personality in identical twins who are members of a dizygotic set of triplets is reported; the third triplet showed no evidence of personality disturbance. The author suggests that environmental and psychodynamic factors had an essential role in the development of the sociopathic personality disturbances.

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