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Marilyn Hendricks has three younger siblings. Her father is a fireman; her mother a clerk in a department store. As with most families in the suburb where they live, a good part of their income goes to making monthly payments on their house mortgage and on their car. Most of the financial worries and the problems of raising their children seemed behind them, when Marilyn, at the age of fifteen, became ill.
The parent who gives the child love and concern can still have a mentally ill child. That is the tragedy of being a parent. — Dr. Louise B. Ames
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Spitzer, T. (1980). The Family is the Patient. In: Psychobattery. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5997-8_11
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