An approach to the investigation of childhood schizophrenia: The speech of schizophrenic children and their mothers.

Goldfarb, William; Braunstein, Patricia; Scholl, Hannah

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1959.tb00217.x

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“…An interesting feature in Marie's emergence from non‐communicative autism concerned the development of her speech. Her initial utterances were, in the manner described by many investigators (5, 6, 7), either in the third person or with the I‐you reversal. The overall sentence structure was Tarzanesque.…”

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Monadic Orientation: A Contribution to the Structure of Families with Autistic Children

Crabtree¹,

Brecht²,

Sonne³

1972

Family Process

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In the schizophrenogenic family, many interactions appear to function to maintain pathological dyadic alliances. This paper reports the family treatment of a family with an autistic child and develops the view that in an autistogenic family interactions tend toward maintaining self‐isolation and disaffiliation. This process of splitting and dissolving dyads and the tendency to maintain isolation of family members is held to be an essential feature of the autistogenic process; it is referred to as the monadic orientation.

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Monadic Orientation: A Contribution to the Structure of Families with Autistic Children

Crabtree¹,

Brecht²,

Sonne³

1972

Family Process

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“…Associated with this is the development of defects in the concept of self and a diffusion of boundaries of self and nonself ( Fig. 1) (6,10). The formlessness of the child's world can also result from his own intrinsic inability to structure his environment.…”

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“…The patterns of family interaction observed are rated using a set of 44 scale^.^ The total score of 8 of these scales is particularly pertinent as a measure of the mother's perplexity or her ability to structure the child's environment. These 8 scales measure the following qualities of maternal behavior: 1) spontaneity of interaction, 2) decisiveness, 3) consistency of emotional relatedness, 4) appropriate mode of relating to child, 5) appropriate control of child, 6) appropriate imposition of routines, 7) appropriate anticipation of physical needs, 8) appropriate meeting of child's demands. A sample scale is shown in Figure 2.…”

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“…4 Suggestive evidence for a similar trend in terms of total family integration has been reported in a previous publication from Ittleson Center (2) and recently confirmed in a controlled study (11). 6 The scales are divided into the following categories: husband and wife as marital partners, total family group, husband and wife as parents, parent-child and child-child patterns of interaction.…”

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“…Associated with this is the development of defects in the concept of self and a diffusion of boundaries of self and nonself (Fig. 1) (6,10).…”

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Studies of perplexity in mothers of schizophrenic children.

Meyers¹,

Goldfarb²

1961

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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HE data to be presented in this paper represent an effort to test re-T peated clinical observations of a particular set of responses in parents of schizophrenic children being treated at the Ittleson Center for Child Research. For purposes of discussion these complex phenomena, referable to parental function, have been previously subsumed under the term "Parental Perplexity" (9).l The syndrome of perplexity includes parental passivity, marked uncertainty, lack of spontaneity, absence of empathy with the child with resultant diminished awareness of the child's gratification needs, bewilderment and blandness in the face of socially unacceptable or bizarre behavior in the child, and a total absence of forthright parental control. This unstructured and nonempathic reaction to the child's needs and responses is sometimes disguised by a compensatory dependence on mechanical intellectualization and by the use of an inflexible set of rules for parenting.It should be emphasized that these parental traits refer to the immediate impact of the parent on the schizophrenic child. On a deeper level, psychodynamic studies have pointed to a frequently underlying dynamic constellation in the mothers who show this bewilderment and paralysis of parental functioning. These are often mothers who themselves have suffered early emotional deprivation so that the child is experienced as an overwhelming burden rather than as a source of maternal pleasure. As a result these mothers are dominated by an immense rage toward the child. Sometimes this rage emerges explosively for brief intervals, but more usually it is denied obvious, overt expression and diverted into a state of clinical depression.Equally important is the mother's unconscious wishful image of her omnipotent magical power. Murderous rage is thus combined with an unconscious belief in her catastrophically destructive powers. In the unconscious denial and inhibition of her rage the mother becomes dramatically blocked in the execution of her mothering role. At this point she resorts to

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Self-Awareness in Schizophrenic Children

Golfarb¹

1963

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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An approach to the investigation of childhood schizophrenia: The speech of schizophrenic children and their mothers.

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Monadic Orientation: A Contribution to the Structure of Families with Autistic Children

Monadic Orientation: A Contribution to the Structure of Families with Autistic Children

Studies of perplexity in mothers of schizophrenic children.

Self-Awareness in Schizophrenic Children

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