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Paranoid disorders: family sources of the delusional system

Author(s) -

Kaffman Mordecai

Publication year - 1983

Publication title -

journal of family therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52

H-Index - 45

eISSN - 1467-6427

pISSN - 0163-4445

DOI - 10.1046/j..1983.00610.x

Subject(s) - distrust , transactional analysis , psychology , feeling , irrational number , jealousy , paranoia , social psychology , psychotherapist , geometry , mathematics

Several family transactional patterns seem to play a critical rôle in the creation of the patient's paranoid constructions. A philosophy of life characterized by inflexible rules, irrational beliefs, distrust, apprehensive‐ness and hate is prominent in a great number of families with paranoid patients. The family members typically intrude on each others' actions and feelings with mutual reinforcement of the paranoid ideas. Schreber's family appears to be a characteristic demonstration of the important implications of interactional transactions within the family in the genesis of a paranoid system.

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