Family dysfunction - psychological explanation of sz Flashcards
1
Q
What have there been attempts to do?
A
link schizophrenia to childhood and adult experiences of living in a dysfunctional family
2
Q
What did Fromme-Reichmann 1948 propose?
A
a psychodynamic explanation of sz based on the accounts she had heard from patients about their childhood
3
Q
What did many patients speak about?
A
a schizophrenogenic mother, she was cold/rejecting and controlling
4
Q
What did the schizophrenogenic mother create?
A
a family climate characterised by tension and security
5
Q
What did the schizophrenogenic mother lead to in the children?
A
distrust and later paranoid delusions
