Obsessional Neurosis, Marriage, Sex and Fertility: Some Transcultural Comparisons

Salman Akhtar
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Salman Akhtar: Department of Psychiatry, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, U.S.A.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1978, vol. 24, issue 3, 164-166

Abstract: In a study of 82 obsessional neurotics, it was found that Indian obsessives, unlike their counterparts in other countries, do not display a higher than expected rate of celibacy, bachelorhood, and low fertility. Some socio-cultural explanations have been offered for these findings.

Date: 1978
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