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Process/content
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Distinction between how members of family or group relate and what they talk about
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Schizophrenogenic mother
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Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s term for aggressive, domineering mothers thought to precipitate schizophrenia in their offspring.
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Double bind
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A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship, and cannot leave or comment
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Homeostasis
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A balance steady state of equilibrium
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Pseudomutuality
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Wynn’s term for the façade of family harmony that characterizes many schizophrenic families
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Pseudohostility
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Wynn’s term for superficial bickering that masks pathological alignments in schizophrenic families.
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Rubber fence
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Wynn’s term for the rigid boundary surrounding many schizophrenic families, which allows only minimal contact with the surrounding communities.
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Martial Schism
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Lidz’s term for a pathological overt martial conflict
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Martial Skew
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Lidz’s term for a pathological marriage in which one spouse dominates the other
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Mystification
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Laing’s concept that many families distort their children’s experience by denying or relabeling it.
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Concurrent & conjoint therapy
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Treatment of two or more person in sessions together or treatment of two or more person, seen separately, usually by different therapists
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Object relations
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Internalized images of self and others based early parent-child interactions that determine person’s mode of relationship to other people
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Family homeostasis
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Tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady state
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Complementary relationships
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Based on differences that fit together, where qualities of one make up for lacks in the other; one is one-up while the other is one-down.
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Symmetrical relationships
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In relationships, equality or parallel form
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