Schizophrenia: A Family's Projective Identification

JAMES R. STABENAUAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.1.19

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By means of projective identification, parents may contribute to the differential life course leading to schizophrenia in a family member. The author presents the case history of a family with a set of monozygotic male twins discordant for schizophrenia. The father, by suggesting that one twin was more vulnerable than the other, helped establish in that twin a negative identity, an inhibition (rather than a neutralization) of instinctual expression, and an aggressive (rather than libidinal) tie with the parents. The ego splitting that resulted seemed to be based on the child's projective identification in a pathologically defensive way.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130 • Number 1 • January 1973

Pages: 19 - 23

PubMed: 4682741

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Published in print: January 1973

Published online: 1 April 2006

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JAMES R. STABENAU

Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, Conn. 06112

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