Premorbid Personality of Depressive, Bipolar, and Schizophrenic Patients With Special Reference to Suicidal Issues

The personalities of 6,315 Swiss conscripts of the army were assessed in 1971 by the Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPR), together with social attributes & consumption of tobacco, alcohol, & drugs. Up to 1983, 185 psychiatric patients were identified who were treated as inpatients or outpatients in the same geographic area. A subsample of 87 patients were chosen for a blind diagnostic study applying Feighner criteria to the records. Their premorbid personalities are compared to controls from the same group. Findings are discussed. (41 refs)