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...sullen twelve-year-old girl hunches over in a chair, surrounded by her father, mother, sister, brother and a child psychiatrist. Her problem: severe asthma that will not respond to medical attention. After listening to the parents discuss the asthma, the psychiatrist suddenly switches attention to the sister's ample figure. She is clearly overweight. Isn't that a family problem too? As the family starts talking about obesity, the asthmatic girl sits up in her chair...
According to the psychiatrist, Dr. Ronald Liebman, Chief of Psychiatry at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, that shift in the discussion helped bring the asthma under control. "The patient's overprotective parents," he says, "were focusing so much concern on her that she was responding with ever more severe symptoms." The girl understood that her parents' concern was no longer focused on her alone but on two family problems. After two months of complicated family therapy, the girl's asthma symptoms subsided. The trips to hospital emergency rooms ended, and she missed no more school...
Horrible Fantasies. Psychiatrist Norman Paul of Cambridge, Mass., reports some success in using family therapy to control epilepsy. Working with Dr. Robert Feldman, head of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, he triggers seizures in epileptics and later shows a video tape of the attack to the entire family. The results so far: of twelve patients treated over the past three years, four have improved dramatically. One woman, 40, went from four seizures a day to one every eight months. Says Paul: "Epileptics have horrible fantasies about what they do. When they see the tapes, they can come...
...cases, family therapists argue, an outbreak of physical illness is both a symptom of high stress among family members and an attempt to cope with it. Minuchin says that anorexia nervosa victims are "saviors of the family" because they paper over parental conflicts that threaten to destroy the family. Psychiatrist Philip Guerin, director of the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond's Medical...
...OONLY A PSYCHIATRIST can help poor Schoenberg now...He would do better to shovel snow instead of scribbling on music paper." So wrote Richard Strauss in a letter to Alma Mahler, voicing an opinion that is shared by most listeners today...