Seventy patients who averaged 155% overweight and requested jejunoileal bypass surgery as a treatment intervention for morbid obesity were studied preoperatively for prominent psychological characteristics. By use of standard personality tests and a structured psychiatric interview, it was found that 89% were judged to be psychologically favorable risks for the operation. Most frequently the diagnostic opinion was of a mild personality disorder.
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