Differentiating characteristics of parents of childhood schizophrenics, childhood neurotics, and young adult schizophrenics.
Differentiating characteristics of parents of childhood schizophrenics, childhood neurotics, and young adult schizophrenics.
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区分儿童精神分裂症患者、儿童神经症患者和年轻成人精神分裂症患者的父母的特征。
DOI:
10.1176/ajp.120.3.234
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发表时间:
1963
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通讯作者:
L. Wynne
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作者:
M. T. Singer;L. Wynne
Research at the NIMH on the families of schizophrenics is broadened in this study to include the parents of child psychiatric patients. Previous studies in this program (5) have demonstrated that the families of young adult schizophrenics can be blindly differentiated from the families of young adult neurotics when criteria are used which emphasize form or style of thinking and focusing attention. In the present study we show that relationship disorders, rather than the thinking disorders which are so prominent in the families of the adult schizophrenics, are especially pertinent to the differentiation of families of autistic schizophrenic children from families of neurotic children. The criteria for predicting autistic illness in an offspring from parental data were derived from the psychodynamic hypothesis that primary disruption and impairment in the child's relationship to parental figures is crucial in early autistic disorders. We have assumed that an infant's congenital incapacity can contribute to ...