Sensual and Intellectual Reality Is Key to Mental Health in Family of Origin and in Organizations: Lessons from Schizophrenic Systems
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After World War II a group of pioneer psychotherapists explored how the family environment ameliorated or exacerbated the functioning of patients. Returning GIs were seen to improve their mental status when they returned home. On the opposite end of the sanity spectrum were schizophrenics. Before medicines, doctors looked to the environment for causes and remediations. Drug therapy was introduced to America during 1955-1956, with the acceptance of Thorazine. This allowed reducing the number of residents at state hospitals. In 1983, E. Fuller Torrey published the first edition of Surviving Schizophrenia. This book crusaded to absolve parents of “blame” for their child’s mental illness and he went on to condemn the contrary researchers who are cited below. Drugs and the pushback by parents to silence any implication that they are to blame effectively silenced the pioneers who studied families. Nevertheless, I believe these early researchers observed interpersonal interactions that can still inform us. My reading of the literature determined that fundamental in all family system theories is parents collude in fostering the absence of confirmed reality by the patent. In organizations this pattern is carried on by public relations and other gambits. Three basic and inclusive theories were developed: the communications theory, the general systems theory, and the Murray Bowen Theory. In each, unrealistic demands by one parent are reinforced by the other parent. Family lessons also apply to corporations that manipulate messages. Workers can be confused by how their experience differs from the party line. Therapy takes many forms—conjoint, concurrent or individual—but, in all, reality must be introduced into the patient.
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