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Family Group Therapy in Retrospect: Four Years and Sixty Families
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One hundred adolescent cases admitted to an in-patient unit were studied to determine how often conjoint family therapy was used. Although the explicit policy of the ward was to use this form of treatment in all cases, in fact only fifty per cent were so treated. This paper reviews the possible explanations for this.
The schizophrenic psychosis of the patient is, in the author's opinion, a symptom manifestation of an active process that involves the entire family. This orientation has evolved during the three and one half years of a clinical research project in which schizophrenic patients and their parents have lived together on a psychiatric ward in a research center. The family unit is regarded as a single organism and the patient is seen as that part of the family organism through which the overt symptoms of psychosis are expressed. This volume is devoted to papers about the etiology of schizophrenia. When schizophrenia is seen as a family problem, it is not a disease in terms of our usual way of thinking about disease, nor does it have an etiology in terms of the way those of us in the medical sciences have been trained to think of etiology. However, a family orientation does permit us to talk in terms of the origin and development of schizophrenia. When the family is viewed as a unit, certain clinical patterns come into focus that are not easily seen from the more familiar individual frame of reference. In this paper, the author describes some of the prominent clinical observations from the family research study and conveys some thoughts about the way schizophrenia develops in the family group. The material is presented in four sections. The first section deals with some important overall considerations. The second section includes pertinent background information about the family research study. The third section includes clinical material from the research project and theoretical considerations of the family concept. The fourth section includes a summary of the family concept and some thoughts about how this is related to the overall problem of schizophrenia. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
"This book… presents a way of understanding health through the 'emotional give and take' of family relationships. It outlines a conceptual approach to emotional disturbance in the individual through analysis of the psychological content of his family experience." The interdependence of individual, family, and society is discussed in terms of Freudian theory and is illustrated with clinical therapeutic case material. 15-page bibliography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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