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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.