title: [Ego identity and self-concept problems in children of psychotic parents. Results of a qualitative cross-sectional study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In contrast to previous high-risk studies of children of parents suffering from psychosis a new approach to the difficulties of affected children will be tested, using the linguistic and narrative tools of biography studies.
  
  
  METHODS
  The transcribed texts of biographical interviews of affected children will be analysed linguistically and hermeneutically through "close reading".
  
  
  RESULTS
  The linguistic and interpretative study of these texts will demonstrate the children's specific problem of identity-formation and their construction of reality and biography through the order of language (as shown by their uses of metonymy and metaphor).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By using the method of biographical research a) the creative potential of patients and their children is exposed, b) a qualified view of mental illnesses can be reached in the field of symbolic practice.
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authors.lastname: Sollberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D003405:Creativity; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D013561:Symbolism