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The Family and Schizophrenia

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The last 30 years have witnessed a steady growth of interest in family influences on the individual, in the operations of family systems, and in harnessing the power of the family in creating therapeutic change. Throughout this period, but particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, schizophrenia has been a major focus of family researchers and therapists and has received more attention from eminent scholars of the family than other forms of psychopathology.

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