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Schizophrenia and communication efficiency

An earlier study (Sølvberg & Blakar (1975)) testified to subtle differences in communication efficiency over different communication situations by parental couples with and without schizophrenic offspring. The present study is offered as a replication of this study, but whereas the participating couples in the original study were recruited from a big city (Oslo), the parental couples in the present replication come from a typical rural district. The main findings of the original study are reproduced, but the very same method which was sensitive with respect to > the “normality‐schizophrenia” variable, also proved to be highly sensitive with regard to the cultural variation represented by the rural‐urban dimension. There‐fore, the present study is used as basis for discussing more general methodological problems involved in communication‐oriented studies on psychopathology. In particular the underlying (often implicit) model of “normal communication”, from which pathological communication deviates, is seriously questioned.