Schizophrenic Women - Studies in Marital Crisis (Hardcover)

Schizophrenic Women is a fascinating report on the lives of seventeen families that suffered the experiences associated with the hospitalization of the wife and mother for mental illness. A description and analysis of representative experiences is presented here in an attempt to investigate various key issues--the patterns of family living preceding the crisis leading to medical hospitalization; how the patterns fell apart; how personal and family crises became psychiatric emergencies; how the hospital experiences modified both the immediate crises and the earlier patterns of living--and how durable those changes were once the patients had returned home. The book goes beyond the immediate lives of the women and their families--the authors direct attention to patterns of psychiatric care and to the ways in which such crises as those experienced by these women and their families come to professional attention and are managed. The authors explore how help is found and used and some of the functions hospitalization serves for patients and their families. They point out some of the ways that traditional patterns of psychiatric care limit the power to observe, understand, and effectively influence a pathological course of events. In her new introduction to Schizophrenic Women, Rita J. Simon notes that, "Although the study was conducted in the 1950s, readers will recognize its current relevance and importance for scholars and the lay public interested in the problem of mental illness and intrafamily relationships."

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2018
First published:	2005
Authors:	Robert D. Towne • Harold Sampson • Sheldon L. Messinger
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-53224-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-53224-X
Barcode:	9781138532243

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