Offspring of women with nonorganic psychosis: mother‐infant interaction at three‐and‐a‐half and six months of age

Abstract

Mother-infant interaction during feeding and in an unstructured play situation was studied in the home at 3.5 and 6 months of age in index mother-infant pairs in which the mother had a history of nonorganic psychosis (n = 48 and 52 at 3.5 and 6 months, respectively) and in demographically similar control pairs (n = 80 and 79). Interaction was significantly more negative in index than control cases at both ages, index cases showing decreased maternal and infant social contact and reduced maternal sensitivity to the infant's needs. Schizophrenic and Cycloid groups evidenced more negative interaction characteristics than did their matched controls, while the Affective group was not generally more negative than its controls.

Offspring of women with nonorganic psychosis: mother‐infant interaction and fear of strangers during the first year of life

“…The basic samples and methods have been described previously (12,(17)(18)(19)(20)(21). The subjects included in this sub-study were those 126 motherinfant pairs who participated in the longitudinal study and for whom data were obtained for both mother-infant interaction at any of the six observation occasions during the infant's first year, and infant FOS at 1 year.…”

“…Interaction was observed in feeding on the maternity ward at 3 days after delivery and in both feeding and an unstructured play situation in the home at 3 and 6 weeks and 3.5, 6 and 12 months (18)(19)(20)(21). The maternal, infant and reciprocal variables employed in the current analyses were the same as those used in investigating the antecedents of anxious attachment, as described in (15).…”

Antipsychotic drugs on maternal behavior in rats

“…Studies on the mother-child relationship reveal that the quality of maternal care from schizophrenic mothers is generally inferior to that from healthy mothers (Bosanac et al , 2003; Wan et al , 2008b). It has been reported that mothers with schizophrenia show fewer positive emotional responses and less social contact with their infants than do healthy mothers (Persson-Blennow et al , 1984; McNeil et al , 1985; Naslund et al , 1985; Persson-Blennow et al , 1986). They are generally more remote, silent, insensitive, and unresponsive during mother-infant play, and they are less demanding of their infants (Riordan et al , 1999; Snellen et al , 1999).…”

Sedation and disruption of maternal motivation underlie the disruptive effects of antipsychotic treatment on rat maternal behavior

“…In comparison with healthy mothers and those with other mental disorders, schizophrenic mothers are more remote, self-absorbed, intrusive, flaccid, insensitive and unresponsive, and less demanding when taking care of their infants (McNeil et al, 1985; Näslund et al, 1985; Persson-Blennow et al, 1984, 1986; Riordan et al, 1999; Snellen et al, 1999; Wan et al, 2007). The speech of mothers with schizophrenia is less infant-focused, more negative, and with fewer songs and rhymes (Wan et al, 2008).…”