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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 127, No. 8

Articles | February 01, 1971

The Psychiatric Adjustment of the Adopting Parents of Schizophrenics

PAUL H. WENDER; DAVID ROSENTHAL; THEODORE P. ZAHN; SEYMOUR S. KETY

Am J Psychiatry 1971;127:1013-1018.

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Research Psychiatrist, Laboratory of Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014

Chief, Laboratory of Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014

Head, Unit of Psychophysiology, Laboratory of Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass, Laboratory of Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014

1971, American Psychiatric Association

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This study attempted to separate the relative roles of experiential and genetic factors in the etiology of schizophrenia by studying the psychiatric and psychological characteristics of a group of adopting parents of schizophrenics and comparing these parents with the biological parents of schizophrenics and the adopting parents of normal subjects. The results indicate that the biological parents of schizophrenics are appreciably more disturbed than the adopting parents of schizophrenics, who are in turn slightly more disturbed than the adopting parents of normals.

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