Thought Disorder and Family Relations of Schizophrenics

Transactional and Contextual Invalidation between the Parents of Disturbed Families: A Comparative Study

“…Empirically, the present study of “transactional” and “contextual” invalidation supports earlier research that has linked parents' communication style to their offspring's psychopathology (4, 7, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 29, 32, 35, 37, 42, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 58, 61, 62). The author views the systematic focus on metacommunicative dimensions as a most promising line for further inquiry into the structure of family interaction.…”

Family dynamics in psychotic and severe psychosomatic disorders: A comparison.

“…Clinical observations of these families show that their members tend to disqualify each other's messages, imperceptibly shift their frames of reference, and do not share a joint focus of attention. This agrees with the well-known studies of Wynne and Singer (7,15). They found in schizo-present families much more communication deviance than in other types of families.…”

Variations in Cognitive Control and Psychophysiological Defense in the Schizophrenias

“…39 ' 119 > 128 -14 « Thus, excessive concreteness of thinking, as manifested by process schizophrenics on concept-formation tasks, can be conceptualized in terms of the relative dominance of response to sensory attributes of task stimuli and the consequent minimal attention to their nonsensory attributes. 117 -12S - 146 The physiologic findings also are consistent with clinical observations of chronic schizophrenic patients by Bleuler, 11 on their excessive registration of sensory impressions, and by Rapaport, 94 on hypermnesia. Finally, they accord with the experimental findings of Dragun 24 and of Wynne and Singer 146 that chronic schizophrenics often respond to the diffuse, undifferentiated aspects of stimuli rather than to their connotative attributes.…”