Psychiatric morbidity in the relatives of schizophrenic probands
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Psychiatric Morbidity among Parents of Schizophrenic Patients1
Parents of schizophrenic patients have frequently been thought of contributing pathogenic influences towards causation, occurrence, recurrence or progression of the disease. Lidz and his colleagues (1957) conducted an extensive enquiry about the parental characteristics of schizophrenics and observed 9 out of 15 families having a schizophrenic parents. Fleck, Lidz and Cornelison (1963) conclude...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.163.5.695b