PAIRED EPISODES OF MANIC-DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS WITHIN A SINGLE FAMILY
GEORGE E. VAILLANT M.D.1
1 Resident in Psychiatry, Mass. Mental Health Center, and Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
For one family data are presented to suggest that the specific stress of psychosis in a relative can serve as one of the major precipitating factors in what otherwise might appear to be a largely genetically determined psychosis.
