Research findings on marriage as a heterosexual institution were reviewed and research was carried out to determine if certain of them were applicable to lesbian “marriage” as well. Marriage was defined as a relationship in which two people have lived together with strong emotional and sexual involvement for a year or more. Subjects were volunteers from among women age 22 or older, who were childless, and who were involved in the women's movement, as well as their friends, lovers and husbands. There were 14 lesbian couples, 14 lesbians who has never been married and 6 lesbians who had been married but weren’t currently and who were involved in a sexual relationship at the time of the study. Subjects were asked to fill out various forms, including (not all subjects completed all the forms) a questionnaire of background information; Interpersonal Checklists on actual-self, ideal-self, lover or spouse, how they think their spouse (or lover) sees them, how they think their spouse (or lover) sees herself (himself); a Security-Insecurity Inventory; a Marital-Roles Inventory; and a Socioemotional Valuation Index. Results indicated that for this population of lesbians and heterosexuals: Homogeneous trait matching occurs among lesbians so that a mate is chosen who is perceived as resembling the self (p≤.005). The evidence did not support the theory of ideal-self-fulfillment, proposed by Karp, Jackson and Lester, for lesbians; Married lesbians do not score higher in insecurity on a Security-Insecurity test than never-married lesbians, the average score for this sample being almost exactly the same (single lesbians scoring higher). There is insufficient evidence to conclude that heterosexually married women score higher in insecurity than married lesbians though results were in the expected direction (p≤.15); Marital satisfaction is higher among lesbians than among women involved in a heterosexual marriage (p≤. 05); There is insufficient evidence to conclude that spouses in lesbian marriage make more nearly equal amounts of adjustment than do spouses in heterosexual marriage, though results were in the expected direction (p≤. 1). Although none of the hypotheses concerning interpersonal perception and marital satisfaction were supported by the evidence it was tentatively concluded from looking at the pattern of the results that lesbian marriages are not split into roles so that one partner is assigned the instrumental, task-oriented roles and the other the expressive, integrative roles.

Thesis (M Med(Psychiatry))--University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus) ,2009. / Profiling of mental disorders in tertiary institutions is relatively an understudied subject .The aim of the study was to delineate the types, age and gender distribution of psychiatric disorders in Dr. George Mukhari hospital .This is a tertiary psychiatric unit which caters for mental health care users in Garankuwa , Soshanguve , Mabopane region. The study is retrospective and caters for a period January 2006 to December 2006. Dr George Mukhari being a tertiary institution ,the types of mental disorders seen are the emergency ones i.e. aggressive ,life threatening or complex in nature . Schizophrenia was the most common disorder , affecting more males than females in adults , whereas mental retardation was more common in children affecting more males than females. . This underlay the devastating nature of neuoro-developmental problems in psychiatry. Most of the mental health care users seen were single and un-employed(most on disability grants)

Thesis (M Med (Psychiatry))--University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), 2010. / The aim of the study was to establish a profile of psychiatric illnesses that are encountered during consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry and to describe interventions undertaken. The objective was to identify referral patterns, establish the referral rate, and to profile the diagnoses & describe the actions taken by the consulting doctor. This was a retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study conducted on all inpatients that were referred to psychiatry from other disciplines in the hospital for the 12 month period January to December 2009. The study was conducted at Dr George Mukhari Hospital, which is a tertiary psychiatric unit which caters for mental health care users in the Garankuwa , Soshanguve and Mabopane region. The study found that the referral rate to psychiatric C-L services was lower than at other institutions. Amongst the referred patients, there was a high incidence of organic brain syndrome diagnoses, but a low rate of depression. The study proposed further investigation into the reasons behind the low rate of referral and low rate of depression, so as to improve C-L service delivery in the hospital.

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Diss. - Jena. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Graduation date: 1947

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Helsinki. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180).

Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 62-68).

Thesis--Smith College. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.