{Schizophrenia and Manic Depression (1) [continued]}[15th June 1988]

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H.S. Sullivan (1892-1949) blamed schizophrenia on the victim's faulty interaction with others, especially poor parent-child relationships,* leading to peculiar ways of coping with life, and lack of consensual validation (decreasing agreement with others in perceiving the World),** and finally schizophrenic panic.*** Arieti (1914-81) held a similar, but different, view. Schizophrenia appears to be more frequent in some families.

A protected environment away from the demands of ordinary life seems to help many sufferers. (There are other forms of treatment as well, of course.) 'Good outcome is related to acute, sudden onset of a confused, excited kind of disturbance; absence of schizophrenic family history; presence of additional emotional symptoms usually found in manic depressive psychosis; … and evidence of some fairly clear psychological conflict that seems to have precipitated the disturbance.'****

Shock treatment# (insulin#* or electric) seems to work best. Drug treatment is most common. Psychosurgery is rare nowadays.

*Some authorities emphasise the ('his') relationship with the ('his') mother. cf. T.VI at C.

**U~-A~-J~G~?

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****[Presumably, from E[ncyclopaedia ]B[ritannica] [(15^th Ed)].XV.963ff]

#(cf [next entry, [Redbook5:158-159][19880615:1642c]{Schizophrenia and Manic Depression (1) [continued] (3)}[15^th June 1988],] 159, transformation)

#*(to produce coma)

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