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The nuclear family as the functional unit in psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. G. Howells
J. G. Howells*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich
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In the introduction to his Chairman's address in 1959, Warren (24) reminded us that both Cameron (6) from this country and Kanner (17) from the United States, had, in recent years, surveyed the historical background of child psychiatry. Chairmen of this Section may thus deem themselves exempted from repeating that task for some years to come. Warren took as his theme some relationships between the psychiatry of childhood and that of adulthood. It seemed to me appropriate to follow his lead and to carry our thoughts a step further by considering the child and adult as members of the family group, and to study how far it would be useful to accept the nuclear family, rather than the individual patient, as the functional unit in psychiatry.

Type
Sociological
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 456 , September 1962 , pp. 675 - 684
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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