Familjer Med En Psykotisk Förälder Psykodynamiska Synpunkten

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To study families with a psychotic parent, 35 families were interviewed in the acute phase of the illness and 2-3 years later. The ill parents had to be less than 45 years old and hospitalized for the first time for psychosis in either the Psychiatric Clinic in Turku or the Municipal Hospital for the mentally ill. The families had to be intact and have children between 4 and 16 years old. To cope with all the information collected, some common denominator had to be found. Such was found in the separation-individuation processes of man's life. Psychosis in a parent can be seen as an interrupted separation-individuation process in the family. When the developmental and psychologic function of the family ought to change. when there is a turning point in the family life-cycle, the risk of illness in one of its members increases. The stress is greater for the parent with strong vertical bonds, whose own separation and individuation from his/her own parents is incomplete. The risk to the children in the family is an interrupted separation-individuation process. They become bound by and dependent on the parents and later become a new risk group for disturbances coursed by incomplete or interrupted separation and individuation.

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