social pressures such as family environment can cause schizophrenia
expressed emotion by George brown = observed 156 families critical comments often about sz symptoms eg. your why I'm sad hostility usually parent threat to child emotional over involvement and loss of independence lack of warmth eg no smile or praise - persecution delusion
double bind communication = George Bateson = mixed messages eg how was your day then go on phone = don't know which is real and struggle to understand reality = long term = positive symptoms to escape and construct own reality = often negative and hallucinations
