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Thought Disorder in the Parents of Thought Disordered Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Hilary J. Muntz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Purdysburn Hospital, Saintfield Road, Belfast 8
R. P. Power
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Queer's University, Belfast 9

Extract

The studies to be discussed were carried out within the framework of the Personal Construct Theory, as proposed by G. A. Kelly (4) and summarized by Bannister (1), and follow the line that thought disorder in offspring may be related to some kind of thought disorder in parents (2,6).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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