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Manic-depressive illness: psychodynamic features of multigenerational families
Yolande B Davenport1, Marvin L Adland1, Philip W Gold1
1Clinical Psychobiology Branch.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
Psychodynamic features of families with multigenerational bipolar manic-depressive illness are described. Repetitive maladaptive patterns, including avoidance of affect, unrealistic standards of conformity, absence of intimate relationships apart from family, displaced parental low self-esteem, and fears related to illness heritability, may influence the maintenance of family pathology.