Talk:Theodore Lidz

Wording Issues
The phrase "Dr. Lidz observed that Mr. N. behaved as a spokesman of her wife; he paraphrased her demands and questions. His wife “tended to treat him as a child”." appears within the article. This clearly doesn't make sense, so if anyone could look into changing this it would be great.

Removals of some of my previous edits
Lidz was a critic of biological psychiatry, especially of the genetic theories. However, I eliminated the sections “Sites dedicated to other non biological psychiatrists” and “Organizations critical of biological psychiatry” that I myself had posted since they are already mentioned in the Anti-psychiatry article.

I also added links to the articles of Lidz’s colleagues that held pretty similar views about schizophrenia. —Cesar Tort 06:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC). And also added a section about “schizophrenogenic parents”: the central point in Dr. Lidz’s legacy. —Cesar Tort 00:12, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Child-like status parent
This is a good summary of Ted Lidz's work. I don't know anything about editing Wikipedia but I would suggest to someone who does two additions. One is that his conviction that the primary origin of schizophrenia was in the patterns of interaction and the culture of the family. Thus he found that, in the families of origin of people with schizophrenia, there was either severe chronic conflict between the parents that involved the child or radical power differentials between the parents in which one of them was reduced to a child-like status in the family. Likewise, he emphasized that all of the members of the family paid severe emotional prices for its culture with most having other serious emotional problems. Second, I would add that he was greatly interested in the contribution of the social sciences to psychiatry (e.g., nominating Jean Piaget for the Nobel prize in Medicine) and worked hard to include the social sciences in psychiatric training at Yale and nationally.

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 * Excellent information! Please be bold and introduce it yourself. —Cesar Tort 15:21, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Originator of term?
I've read that Frieda Fromm-Reichmann invented the term "schizophrenogenic mother"—anyone else know the real poop on this? Historian932 (talk) 19:25, 13 January 2010 (UTC)