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Patterns of Response to Out‐of‐focus Slides of Families with an Emotionally Disturbed Member
Author(s) -
RAKOFF VIVIAN,
ROSE ANN
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1972.00339.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , focus (optics) , family member , mutual recognition , social psychology , genealogy , history , physics , international trade , optics , business
Mutual facial recognition was studied in thirty families with and without a disturbed member. It appears that families with a markedly disturbed child have idiosyncratic modes of mutual recognition, particularly in the case of the mother, whereas families without a disturbed member or with a moderately disturbed child do not display idiosyncratic patterns. Although the sample is very small, there is a suggestion that families with a disturbed parent have patterns of recognition that are entirely different from those of the other families in the study.