Varieties of Consensual Experience

Reiss, David

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1971.00001.x

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Parents of schizophrenics show more transactional style deviance in diverse situations than do other parents. One viewpoint is that the families of schizophrenics distort communication in order to maintain a family consensus (19,28). This scoring system was shown to be composed of six meaningful factors.

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Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Jones

1977

Family Process

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Parents of schizophrenics show more transactional style deviance in diverse situations than do other parents. In a sample of families of nonschizophrenic outpatient adolescents, a manual for scoring such deviance on stories told for seven TAT cards was developed. This scoring system was shown to be composed of six meaningful factors. When this system was applied to the TAT's of parents of offspring with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, a total deviance score did not discriminate among the parents. High scores on two particular factors were found only in parents of hospitalized schizophrenics, but four factors were nondiscriminating. Parents of young adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders were more likely to show high scores on at least one of these six factors than other parents. Considering the scores of mothers and fathers together yielded the best discrimination of parents of schizophrenia spectrum disorders from other parents.

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Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Jones

1977

Family Process

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“…Fourth, it should be possible to derive several such interaction equations having bounded solutions for there to be a realistic resemblance between the extended model and small social systems. It is widely ob-served that a number of different types of interpersonal relationships lead to family social systems that are stable over long periods of time (Lederer & Jackson, 1968;Reiss, 1971;Wertheim, 1973).…”

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“…The present investigators expect that a sustained attempt to weave together a number of existing theories into a larger model will actually make validation easier at a later date. The model described in this study begins to integrate mathematical translations of concepts from such diverse personality theorists and social psychologists as Festinger (1954), Bowen (1966), Rotter (1966), Lederer & Jackson (1967), Patterson & Reid (1970), Reiss (1971), Heise (1977), Eysenck (1981), and Anderson (1981), in addition to Freud A second reason for further model refinement prior to empirical testing comes from emerging evidence that traditional experimental designs and statistical methods may not permit reliable inferences about the parameters of multiple-loop feedback systems, a type of system which may generate several stable states (Mass & Senge, 1980;Peterson, 1980;Cobb, 1981). In particular, unrealistically low degrees of measurement error would be needed to permit statistical inference using ordinary least squares (1892-1893/1966).…”

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Systems simulation. Computer simulation of Freud's counterwill theory: Extension to elementary social behavior

1986

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A model is presented describing decision processes of a living system at the level of the individual, together with its interpersonal relationship context (organism, subsystems, and suprasystem). The beginning point was the 1977 system dynamics model of Wegman, which was itself characterized by quantitative cross-level hypotheses concerning both physiological and psychological levels of functioning within the individual personality system. The extension process was accomplished by synthesizing concepts from many different theories in personality and social psychology into equations linking two multiple-loop feedback systems to form a suprasystem. Each individual model was found to have several distinct operational modes, and the dyadic model had a number of interesting combinations of these modes which correlated with clinical descriptions of steady-state behavior and subjective experience in human marital dyads. For example, under certain conditions an individual operating in an unstable mode could achieve personal system stability within a dyadic relationship. In some cases, two unstable individuals could form a stable system. The process of extending the original model supports the utility of a synthetic approach to the construction of quantitative theories concerning small social systems. This process also suggests new approaches to planning future empirical research on small social systems using methods more appropriate to the study of complex, dynamic systems.

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“…The first question was: What is the validity of observing a family solving a structured problem in a research setting? Once again, Reiss' (1971Reiss' ( , 1981 conclusions meet the requirement: Drawing upon the many results obtained in 17 years of studies, he argued that in such occasions families show interactive patterns reflecting the way they face problems in everyday life. But another question was even more crucial, and concerned the external validity of any specific task we decided to ask the families to solve.…”

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“…The study of how family members interact during problem-solving tasks lies at the core of the foundational works of David Reiss (Reiss, 1971(Reiss, , 1981Costell, Reiss, Berkman, & Jones, 1981), who collected an extensive corpus of data based on observational methods over several years of both empirical and clinical work. Reiss emphasizes the extraordinary variety of coping strategies that families employ in response to stress situations, and argues that these strategies are related to an enduring structure of beliefs, convictions, and assumptions held by the family about its social world and shaping its action.…”

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Family Problem-Solving: How Do Families With Adolescents Make Decisions?

Molinari

Everri

2012

IJCYFS

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Abstract:In the present study, we adopt an observational method for the analysis of family members' interactions during a problem-solving task. The specific focus of our work is to put the family as a whole beneath the lens of observation, as well as to analyze how the parents and the adolescent separately contribute to the task solution. Twentyeight non-clinical families with adolescents (13 to 16 years old) were filmed in their homes during a problem-solving task. Family interactions were analyzed according to four observational measures: family efficiency, family communication, family climate, and family participation. Three different patterns of family decision-making are described: families that control (high efficiency, calm family climate, collaborative participation), families that surrender (low efficiency, tense family climate, individual participation), and families that struggle (intermediate efficiency, serious family climate, alternated participation). Theoretical and practical implications in terms of everyday ways of dealing with problems in families with adolescents are discussed.

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Varieties of Consensual Experience

Cited by 120 publications

References 35 publications

Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Systems simulation. Computer simulation of Freud's counterwill theory: Extension to elementary social behavior

Family Problem-Solving: How Do Families With Adolescents Make Decisions?

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