Contradictory Parental Expectations in Schizophrenia
- 1 March 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 6 (3) , 219-234
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1962.01710210035005
Abstract
This paper reports some preliminary findings of one aspect of a research on schizophrenic patients and their families. Previous investigations such as the works of Lidz,12-16Hill,6Wynne,21Bowen,2,3Bateson,1and Jackson8have indicated that parental pathology or pathological patterns of interpersonal relationships in the family are of etiological significance to the development of schizophrenia. Most of these studies have concentrated on the patients' families. In comparing parental or parent-child relations in the schizophrenics' families with those in the nonschizophrenics' families, other investigators use "normals" or "psychoneurotics" as controls. The pieces of research by Kohn,10Clausen,4and Myers and Roberts18are examples of this type. These latter researches have shown the prevalence of certain patterns of parental authority structure in the schizophrenics' families which are different from those in the nonschizophrenic families, at leastKeywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: