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IRVING RYCKOFF, M.D.; JULIANA DAY, M.D.; LYMAN C. WYNNE, M.D., Ph.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1959;1(1):93-98.

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Schizophrenia has been considered, by those concerned with environmental factors, to have etiological roots in various aspects of environmental pathology, including symbiotic mother-child relationship, trauma, and empathically communicated anxiety. Although this approach has been fruitful, it has seemed to us to emphasize selectively one or another single factor; we have felt that it would be helpful to begin to develop a larger frame of reference which would make possible the inclusion of the environment as a whole in our formulations. The family, comprising almost all of the child’s environment, seems to be a natural object of study in an attempt to arrive at formulations based not on any one relationship or event but on dynamic elements which permeate all relationships and events in the child’s life.

Our approach, then, is based on the view of the family as an integrated unit, a social subsystem, the character . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Bethesda, Md.

From the Family Studies Section, Adult Psychiatry Branch, Clinical Investigations, National Institute of Mental Health.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 9, 1958.

Presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association San Francisco, May 16, 1958.

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