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New Perspectives on Schizophrenia and Families
Published in Froma Walsh, Carol Anderson, Chronic Disorders and the Family, 2014
One of the most notable research advances has been the line of systematic investigation of communication disorders, following the research strategy developed by Wynne and Singer (1963a, 1963b; Singer & Wynne, 1965). Initially, they used verbatim Rorschach and TAT protocols as a standardized procedure to measure communication process. Manuals were developed for scoring "communication dcviances" (CD), assessed by their transactional impact on the listener (Singer & Wynne, 1966). CD categories include features of amorphous and fragmented communication, such as ambiguous and inconsistent references, disqualifications, and nihilistic and distracting remarks. In families of schizophrenic patients, communication was found to be disturbed in the basic sharing of a focus of attention, leading to failures in sharing meaning, in establishing appropriate closeness/distance, and in acquiring a sense of trust in the family's relational reality. A large body of research has corroborated and extended this work, finding a consistent relationship between parental communication deviance (CD) and the diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorders in offspring (Wynne, Singer, Bartko, & Toohey, 1977; Wild, Shapiro, & Goldenberg, 1974; Jones, 1977; Doane, West, Goldstein, Rodnick, & Jones, 1981; Tienari, 1984).
Mild-to-moderate schizotypal traits relate to physiological arousal from social stress
Published in Stress, 2021
Preethi Premkumar, Prasad Alahakoon, Madelaine Smith, Veena Kumari, Diviesh Babu, Joshua Baker
Disorganized schizotypy includes social anxiety (Mason et al., 1995) and poor verbal fluency (Tan & Rossell, 2017). Disorganized schizotypy is also considered to be an analogue of thought disorder in psychosis (Coleman et al., 1996; Rossell et al., 2014). Thought disorder features illogical thinking, loose association, and peculiar language (Grant & Beck, 2009), as well as communication deviance within the family (Tompson et al., 1997). Disorganized schizotypy and thought disorder are related to elements of social anxiety, such as sensitivity to social rejection (Grant & Beck, 2009; Premkumar et al., 2018b). Hence, greater disorganized schizotypy could relate to greater perceived stress in casual social encounters.