Complementary treatment of mother and child with atypical development: Workshop, 1951.

Ego therapy with parents of the psychotic child.

“…At the Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center and at the Western Psychiatric Institute, we have been studying twenty sets of parents of psychotic children fo r periods of time ranging from four months to three years. At the onset of our studies we fou nd, as have other investigators (2,3,4), that it was un usually difficult to engage these parents in a working relationship at all-let alone attempt to use them, as has been suggested (5), as cotherapists in the management of the child. Our efforts gradually resulted in the development of an empirical method which was found to be effective in overcoming the difficulties we initially encountered.…”