Schizophrenia and communication efficiency

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Abstract
Solvberg and Blakar demonstrated subtle differences in communication efficiency over different communication situations by parental couples with and without schizophrenic offspring. This finding was replicated, but whereas the participating couples in the original study were recruited from a big city (Oslo, Norway), the parental couples in the present replication come from a typical rural district. The method which was sensitive with respect to the normality-schizophrenia variable, also proved to be highly sensitive with regard to the cultural variation represented by the rural-urban dimension. General methodological problems involved in communication-oriented studies on psychopathology were discussed. The underlying (often implicit) model of normal communication, from which pathological communication deviates, was seriously questioned.

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