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Theodore Lidz (1 April 1910 – 16 February 2001) was an American psychiatrist best known for his articles and books on the causes of schizophrenia and on psychotherapy with patients with schizophrenia. An advocate of research into environmental causes of mental illness, Lidz was a notable critic of what he saw as a disproportionate focus on ...
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a 2020 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker.The book is an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a mid 20th-century American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia (notably all boys).
The rationale for this approach was that, since the clinical pictures of adult schizophrenia and childhood schizophrenia are identical, childhood schizophrenia should not be a separate disorder. [15] However, the section in schizophrenia's Development and Course in DSM-5, includes references to childhood-onset schizophrenia .
Perhaps their most famous and influential publication was Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia (1956), [1] which introduced the concept of the Double Bind, and helped found Family Therapy. [ 2 ] One of the project's first locations was the Menlo Park VA Hospital , which was chosen because of Bateson's previous work there as an ethnologist . [ 3 ]
Further research also conveyed that there was no survival advantages for children whose parents were experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia. [20] Similarly, Carter and Watts' study theorized a possible physiologic advantage of schizophrenia, that conveyed a decreased prevalence of virus infections among relatives of schizophrenic patients. [21]
Iris and Hester were both circumcised as children in order to prevent them from masturbation. [3] [2] The quadruplets were reportedly physically abused by their father, given the pseudonym Mr. Genain. Subsequently, the Genains accepted an offer by the NIMH to take the daughters into their clinic and each was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The diagnosis of schizophrenia was broader than its modern equivalent; autistic children were often diagnosed with childhood schizophrenia. [4] The earliest research that focused on children who would today be considered autistic was conducted by Grunya Sukhareva starting in the 1920s. [ 5 ]
The first adoption study on schizophrenia published in 1966 by Leonard Heston demonstrated that the biological children of parents with schizophrenia were just as likely to develop schizophrenia whether they were reared by their parents or adopted [5] and was essential in establishing schizophrenia as being largely genetic instead of being a result of child rearing methods.