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Child Development and Schizophrenia: Ethical Implications

Wilfried Ver Eecke

The study shows that there are two phases in the development of the human child. In the first phase the child relates almost exclusively to the mother figure. In the second phase the child is invited or forced to incorporate a third, normally the father. It demonstrates that the introduction of such a third forces a radical psychic change upon the child.

Next, the study explains that schizophrenia is the result of a person not having had the opportunity or the ability to benefit from this restructuring. This absence of restructuring has many consequences, including linguistic consequences, like the inability of schizophrenic persons to understand metaphors. The study continues with the idea that the absence of the father figure does not explain some symptoms of persons afflicted by schizophrenia, like movement disorders, emotional flattening and lack of concentration.

Next the study discusses the claim that medication is the remedy for schizophrenia. The author argues that medication is helpful for diminishing the burden of some symptoms. However, medication does not aim at healing the person afflicted by schizophrenia.

The study ends by reporting about the treatment of two patients.