Growing Up With a Schizophrenic Mother
by Margaret J. Brown, Doris Parker Roberts | Health, Mind & Body | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0786408200 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0786408200 Global Overview for this book
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Looks very interesting.
I was surprised by this book, but I guess I shouldn't be. There was such a strong reaction (justifiably) against decades of stigmatizing mothers for anything that went wrong with children that psychotherapists have not looked at what effects living with a diagnosed schizophrenic as the primary child care provider does to those growing up in a household. Sometimes it is the mother's fault. This is a qualitative study done by interview of 44 such individuals. The authors stress that it is not exhaustive, and can only be preliminary as their subjects were all self-selected.
Still some themes emerge, theses adults are resilient by definition; they survived. They tend to share issues of self-esteem, alienation, and either a flattened emotional life, or hypervigilance. I shared the authors dismay (but not their surprise) when they realized that children of alcoholics are offered services and support, but not children of schizophrenics. Go figure. Just shows how stigmatized these families still remain. Even mental health professionals don't want to think about it too deeply. This book is a start.
I was surprised by this book, but I guess I shouldn't be. There was such a strong reaction (justifiably) against decades of stigmatizing mothers for anything that went wrong with children that psychotherapists have not looked at what effects living with a diagnosed schizophrenic as the primary child care provider does to those growing up in a household. Sometimes it is the mother's fault. This is a qualitative study done by interview of 44 such individuals. The authors stress that it is not exhaustive, and can only be preliminary as their subjects were all self-selected.
Still some themes emerge, theses adults are resilient by definition; they survived. They tend to share issues of self-esteem, alienation, and either a flattened emotional life, or hypervigilance. I shared the authors dismay (but not their surprise) when they realized that children of alcoholics are offered services and support, but not children of schizophrenics. Go figure. Just shows how stigmatized these families still remain. Even mental health professionals don't want to think about it too deeply. This book is a start.
Journal Entry 4 by quietorchid at Gingko Coffee Shop - Snelling And Minnehaha in Saint Paul, Minnesota USA on Saturday, November 7, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (11/7/2015 UTC) at Gingko Coffee Shop - Snelling And Minnehaha in Saint Paul, Minnesota USA
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