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Influence of deaf‐mute parents on the character of their offspring
Author(s) -
Halbreich U.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb06954.x
Subject(s) - psychology , offspring , feeling , personality , daughter , developmental psychology , alienation , character (mathematics) , social psychology , pregnancy , genetics , geometry , mathematics , evolutionary biology , political science , law , biology
Hearing children raised by deaf‐mute parents suffer severe communication problems with their environment from the very moment of their birth. Later on feelings of alienation may ensue. Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf‐mute people. A detailed representative case report of a patient with borderline personality is reported. The patient was a daughter of a quite typical deaf‐mute couple. An attempt to relate some of her main characteristics and mechanisms of adaptation to factors in her early childhood is described.