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Dependence and Responsibility

YI-CHUANG LU, Ph.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1962;6(3):219-234.

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This paper reports some preliminary findings of one aspect of a research on schizophrenic patients and their families. Previous investigations such as the works of Lidz,^12-16 Hill,⁶ Wynne,²¹ Bowen,^2,3 Bateson,¹ and Jackson⁸ have indicated that parental pathology or pathological patterns of interpersonal relationships in the family are of etiological significance to the development of schizophrenia. Most of these studies have concentrated on the patients' families. In comparing parental or parent-child relations in the schizophrenics' families with those in the nonschizophrenics' families, other investigators use "normals" or "psychoneurotics" as controls. The pieces of research by Kohn,¹⁰ Clausen,⁴ and Myers and Roberts¹⁸ are examples of this type. These latter researches have shown the prevalence of certain patterns of parental authority structure in the schizophrenics' families which are different from those in the nonschizophrenic families, at least . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

Present position: Supervising Sociologist, Manteno State Hospital, State of Illinois Department of Mental Health, Manteno, Illinois. Formerly Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Utah; also, Research Associate, Family Study Center, University of Chicago.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 6, 1961.

This research is supported by a grant from the Psychiatric Training and Research Fund of the Department of Mental Health, State of Illinois.

Expanded version of a paper read at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Aug. 31, 1960, in New York City, as part of the program on "Sociology and Mental Health: Familial and Social Relationships and Schizophrenia."

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