title: [Chronicity in psychiatry. Study of the course of mental disorders in relation to numerical variations in the nuclear family].
abstract: Research on the chronic patient in psychiatry is reviewed and a systemic interpretative protocol given so as to examine the role of family interaction factors implicated in the development of mental disturbance. Some research is then reported based on patients in a psychiatric ward in which the general features of the phenomenon are studied and an attempt made to assess the significance of the variable "numerical variations in the family nucleus" compared to the development of the psychopathological disturbance. The results show only a small influence of this variable on the long-term course of individual psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Servizi Psichiatrici dell'U.S.L. n. 21, Padova.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carucci
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Corato
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Capani
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009679:Nuclear Family
vernacular_title: La cronicità in psichiatria. Studio della evoluzione dei disturbi psichici in rapporto alle variazioni numeriche del nucleo familiare.