Schizophrenia: How the Cause Was Discovered

During the child psychoanalytic training class in 1966, Dr. Margaret Mahler, said the origins of childhood schizophrenia in the first 18 months of life. I checked my current population of adult patients and noted that half a dozen of my patients with schizophrenia had a sibling about 1 and a half years younger, like many of my non-psychotic depressed patients had a sibling around 2 and a half years younger - and in any case in the small patient population it was vice versa.

mutual exclusivity of the two groups was one of two to 12 power, or one chance in 4096 by chance alone.

The birth of a brother or sister is just one of thousands of children separating trauma, but it is common, it is traumatic for many children, and most importantly, we know exactly how old the first child the next time it encounters.

This allows to identify the age of origin of specific symptoms. Soon we could determine how clinically when the next child star was born. After what we could do that, we were able to identify other trauma, because we had only one to search a particular month for what happened.

Test yourself at this age, background:

family brought in a twenty year old man who was convinced he would never be able to walk again because his leg hurt. The reality is more real to him since then, a reality that has just walked into my office.

At what age should a child to look around the room and observe the most intense, that anyone else could walk, but he could not - and decide that the reason was because his feet hurt? Obviously, it's just about the time the baby takes its first steps, which is also about the time the child becomes aware that it hurts to put all your weight on one leg.

I told the family, something happened when he was 12 months. They said that nothing had happened. I insisted it did, they insisted that it is not -! "Something happened to cause his mother, would be extremely upset when he was only 12 months, so finally I said, Oh, I remember, his brother died. The mother is obviously devastated for a while - and that's all it took to set the stage for later development of disorders

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I told the family to continue in order for him to return to the earlier mind / brain / reality, it is necessary to separate some of the other most important person, probably a girl friend, and probably just a strange face reality at the age of twelve months. They discovered his girlfriend left one month earlier.