Biomedical subjects

I Eisler

Publications and source records attributed to I Eisler.

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PubMed1985

Systematic observation and clinical insight--are they compatible? An experiment in recognizing family interactions.

Clinical descriptions of families are often viewed as being too subjective for systematic scientific inquiry. This study examines the extent to which independent observers can recognize statements made about family interactions. These statements were of a type which clinicians dealing with families would make and comprised observations with varying levels of inference. A special method was devised to test a number of specific hypotheses concerning the processes of clinical observation. The results show that such descriptions are recognizable as being made about a particular family even when this involves discriminating between clinically similar families. Some of the implications of these results for observational research are discussed.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1985

Anorexia nervosa, parental 'expressed emotion' and dropping out of treatment.

The number of dropouts from a long-term treatment study of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) was substantial. A variety of social, clinical, parental, and treatment factors were examined for their association with early termination of treatment by the patient or the family. Parents' expressed emotion' (EE) (particularly critical comments), BN, and the type of therapy offered (family or individual) were found to interact in some manner to result in dropping out. Some other aspects of parents' EE were also examined, including a comparison of scores in parental pairs; EE was found to be influenced by social class, and there were significant associations with the patient's symptomatology and social adjustment. There was a strong relationship between mothers' and fathers' scores in parental pairs.

Adult↗