title: Empathetic relationships in adolescents and their relevance to prognosis in psychiatric breakdown.
abstract: Many authors have shown that adolescent breakdown is often associated with emotional deprivation in childhood. Psychotherapeutic intervention before the personality becomes too fixed and rigid should offer a means of improvement through the creation of substitute empathetic relationships, and prognosis should be improved to the extent to which this is successful. This hypothesis is tested through a follow-up study involving 100 adolescents, and the hypothesis is found proved in the diagnostic category of adolescent personality disorder, but of no apparent relevance in other groups.
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D008884:Milieu Therapy; D009770:Obsessive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011379:Prognosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment