A child in a family acts as a "scapegoat", accepting the projection of parental conflict, and his neurosis becomes clinically apparent personal problems of parents.
Even more gross deviations have been reported in parents of schizophrenic patients. In this case, a mother distinguish two typical installation: 1) an open rejection, combined with flawless instrumentation, coldness or indifference to the child, sometimes sadistic mood, 2) latent deviation, when excessive care is a form of dominance and parasitic existence in the presence of infantile and selfish plants . Father in these studies was characterized as a passive, indifferent, removed from the family's affairs.
Communication in families of schizophrenic patients is based on the principle of "double bond", which has a basis of duality, irrationality and inconsistency of the motives that guide parents Abnormal acuteness of characterological traits of parents generates specific features of the relationship to the child. Parents, for example, do not see those traits in his character and conduct, on the slightest manifestation of which the child they react painfully and persistently trying to eradicate. Thus, parents unconsciously projecting their problems on the child, and then react to them as their own. So often the "delegation" - persistent desire to make a baby "himself" (development, erudite, decent, and social success) - is a compensation for feelings of inferiority, incapacity, experiences himself as a loser. The projection of parental conflict on children not prejudged,
however, the style of parental attitudes: in one case, this will result in rejection of openly emotional child is not an appropriate image of the ideal parent, in other cases take a more sophisticated form of protective mechanism of formation of the reaction will result overprotective |