Schizophrenic Women: Studies in Marital Crisis
, by Towne,Robert D.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780202308166 | 0202308162
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 5/31/2005
Schizophrenic Women is a fascinating report on the lives of seventeen families that suffered the experiences associated with the hospitalization of the wife and mother for mental illness. A description and analysis of representative experiences is presented here in an attempt to investigate various key issues—the patterns of family living preceding the crisis leading to medical hospitalization; how the patterns fell apart; how personal and family crises became psychiatric emergencies; how the hospital experiences modified both the immediate crises and the earlier patterns of living—and how durable those changes were once the patients had returned home.