The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 117: 707-708. doi: 10.1192/bjp.117.541.707
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Thought Disorder in the Parents of Thought Disordered Schizophrenics

HILARY J. MUNTZ M.Sc.1 and R. P. POWER M.A., Ph.D.2

1 Department of Psychology, Purdysburn Hospital, Saintfield Road, Belfast 8
2 Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast 9

Romney failed to confirm a hypothesized relationship between thought disorder in schizophrenic patients and thought disorder in their relatives. A more sensitive test has shown that there is a relationship between thought disorder in parents and in clinically diagnosed thought disordered schizophrenics, suggesting that parents may play some role in the creation or presence of thought disorder in their offspring, or vice versa.

Submitted on April 14, 1970