Communication deviance

Communication deviance (CD) occurs when a speaker fails to effectively communicate meaning to their listener with confusing speech patterns or illogical patterns.[1] These disturbances can range from vague linguistic references, contradictory statements to more encompassing non-verbal problems at the level of turn-taking.

The term was originally introduced by Lyman Wynne and Margaret Singer in 1963 to describe a communication style found among parents who had children with schizophrenia.[2] According to Wynne, people are able to focus their attention and identify meaning from external stimuli beginning with their interactions, particularly with their parents, during their early years of life.[3] In family communication, deviance is present in the way members acknowledge or affirm one another as well as in task performance.[4]

A recent meta-analysis reported that communication deviance is highly prevalent in parents of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia [5] and adoption studies have reported significant associations between CD in the parent and thought disorder in the offspring,[6] however, the mechanisms by which CD impacts on the offspring's cognition are still unknown. Some researchers theorize that, in the case of a high degree of egocentric communication in parents where the sender and the receiver do not speak and listen according to each other's premises, the child develops uncertainty.[7]

The research of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts Lyman Wynne and Theodore Lidz on communication deviance and roles (e.g., pseudo-mutuality, pseudo-hostility, schism and skew) in families of people with schizophrenia also became influential with systems-communications-oriented theorists and therapists.[8][9]

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References
  1. Singer, MT; Wynne, LC (August 1966). "Principles for scoring communication defects and deviances in parents of schizophrenics: Rorschach and TAT scoring manuals". Psychiatry. 29 (3): 260–88. doi:10.1080/00332747.1966.11023470. PMID 5969538.
  2. Andrés Martin; Fred R. Volkmar; Melvin Lewis (2007). Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 862. ISBN 978-0-7817-6214-4.
  3. Vangelisti, Anita L. (2012-11-27). The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-94636-3.
  4. Huser Liem, Joan (1979). "Family Studies of Schizophrenia: An Update and Commentary". Special Report: Schizophrenia, 1980. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. p. 91.
  5. de Sousa, P.; Varese, F.; Sellwood, W.; Bentall, R. P. (25 June 2013). "Parental Communication and Psychosis: A Meta-analysis". Schizophrenia Bulletin. 40 (4): 756–768. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbt088. PMC 4059429. PMID 23800431.
  6. Wahlberg, KE; Wynne, LC; Oja, H; Keskitalo, P; Anais-Tanner, H; Koistinen, P; Tarvainen, T; Hakko, H; Lahti; Moring, J; Naarala, M; Sorri, A; Tienari, P (January 2000). "Thought disorder index of Finnish adoptees and communication deviance of their adoptive parents". Psychological Medicine. 30 (1): 127–36. doi:10.1017/s0033291799001415. PMID 10722183.
  7. L'Abate, Luciano (1998). Family Psychopathology: The Relational Roots of Dysfunctional Behavior. New York: Guilford Press. p. 84. ISBN 1-57230-369-7.
  8. Sholevar, G.P. (2003). Family Theory and Therapy. In Sholevar, G.P. & Schwoeri, L.D. Textbook of Family and Couples Therapy: Clinical Applications. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
  9. Barker, P. (2007). Basic family therapy; 5th edition. Wiley-Blackwell.


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