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Family Therapy with Psychotic Patients: An Institutional Approach
Author(s) -
Canevaro Alfredo
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1981.tb01390.x
Subject(s) - institution , context (archaeology) , family therapy , therapeutic community , psychotherapist , psychology , family member , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , family medicine , sociology , history , social science , archaeology
The author raises some questions about how an institution that specialized in treating psychotic patients and their relatives must be. He stresses the importance of centralizing the treatment on the whole family group and its insertion in a multi‐family structure. He places importance on the system formed by the staff which should receive the same attention as the patients, if they are to get the best out of the therapeutic community. A brief description of the therapeutic context is given and there is a focusing on the clinic facts. Two cases are presented illustratively.