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## Abstract Interrelating is a combination of each person's relating towards a specified other and each person's view of the other's relating towards him/her. Negative interrelating is a maladaptive form of interrelating. The study aims to (1) compare the negative interrelating within the families of neurotic and psychotic psychotherapy outpatients; (2) examine whether individual treatment has a beneficial effect upon negative interrelating; (3) examine whether the improvement extends beyond the patients' interrelating with their parents (i.e., between the parents and the patients' sibling and between the parents themselves); and (4) make similar comparisons within a sample of non‐patients. The negative interrelating between the psychotic patients and their parents was more marked than that between the neurotic patients and their parents. The negative interrelating between the patients and their parents dropped significantly over the course of therapy. There were also significant changes in the interrelating between the patients' siblings and their parents and between the parents themselves even though they had not been involved in the therapy. Many of the end of therapy scores of

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Author

Argyroula Kalaitzaki; John Birtchnell; Joannis Nestoros

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1063-3995)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)