A Family With a Hereditary Fatal Disease

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The examination of an extended family (a large kindred) who were being investigated for Lindau's disease made it possible to study another family threatened by an inherited potentially fatal disease.*7 Previous reports on the psychology of the responses to the threat of premature death have focused on the individual defenses.4,11 The availability of this and similar families have made it possible to see if there are common reactions within a family to the threat which all believe they are facing. During 1961, the kindred came to the attention of the Department of Medicine of the University of California Medical Center at San Francisco (Figure). All members of the family then living were invited to participate in a screening procedure in the hope of earlier diagnosis. In all 24 adults and 24 children were seen. The children were not part of the

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