Schizophrenic Mother

• What is considered as a crucial factor of scz?

  Mother and child relationship.
• What do the mothers of scz tend to be?

  Over protective and controlling but rejecting and distant at the same time.
• What does overprotection cause?

  It stifles the child's emotional development
• What does emotions distance cause?

  Deviates the child's personal security which makes them feel insecure.
• What can this cause?

  Delusions of persecution as it leaves the individual very vulnerable.
• What is the research evident for this?

  Kasanin et al (1934)
• What occurred in this study?

  Examined hospital case records and found evidenc eof maternal overprotection in 33/45 cases of scz.
• What was the limitation in this study?

  This still means that almost a 1/3 of individuals didn't have an overprotective mother.
• Furthermore...

  The researcher wasn't blind to the aim of the study's aim, so the researcher bias may be present.