한국인 정신분열증 환자의 부친에 관한 정신의학적 연구

A PSYCHIATRIC STUDY ON FATHERS OF KOREAN SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS

In this study, it was attempted to reveal the characteristic clinical pictures of the fathers of schizophrenics as to their personal history, psychiatric illness history, freqency of alcoholic intoxication, personality traits, level of adjustment m life situations, reason and patient’s age at the time of paternal deprivation, and the paternal pathogenic traits toward their children and wife. Sixty cases of the fathers of the schizophrenic group admitted to the psychiatric ward were analysed and a handred cases of the fathers of patients admitted to the non psychiatric ward as the control were added for comparison and the results were as follow: 1. Among the fathers of schizophrenics, the only child showed higher frequency in their sibling orders, and they tended to live in lager family size. 2. In the psychiatric illness history of fathers of the schizophrenics, psychiatric problems including psychoneurosis. psychophysiological disorder, affective disorder, organic brain syndrome al cholism, and schizophrenia were noted. as to their personality traits, the fathers of the schizophrenics showed passive-aggressive personality and antisocial personality. 3. In the analysis of the level of adjustment in life situations, the fathers of schizophrenics showed poor relationship with their family and maritral life, more dissatisfaction in their sexual and occupational life, and poor interactions toward their interpersonal relationships. 4. For the reasons and ages of paternal deprivation in schizophrenics, it was revealed that the the schizophrenics were separated from the father due to their father s economical and marital problems before puberty comparing with the control group. 5. As to the analysis of the paternal pathogenic traits toward their children and their wife it was supposed that the following 4 characteristic types were typical model of Korean schizophrenogenic fathers; a) The psudomutual-paranoid-overtly rejecting father, b) The overprotective-obsessive-covertly rejecting father, c) The indulgent-dependent-weak father, d) The authoritative-domineering-tyrannical father