Authoritarian patterns in the mothers of schizophrenics

✍ Scribed by Jack Dworin; Oakley Wyant

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 634 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(195710)13:4<332::aid-jclp2270130404>3.0.co;2-p

✦ Synopsis

PROBLEM

In the present research an attempt was made t o study the relationship between adult male schizophrenics and their mothers. Although the relationship between disturbed children and their parents has been studied for more than twenty-five years, little is really known about this problem, especially as it relates t o the etiology of schizophrenia. There is evidence'l. 6 * 11-14* 16, 17, that the mother-child relationship plays an important role in the development of emotional disturbance. I n fact, many t h e r a p i s t ~' ~, 4 , 12,