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Peer reviewedCoyne, James C.; Anderson, Barbara J. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1989
Comments on psychosomatic family concept. Reviews decline of psychosomatic models of illness that assume that arousal is the only or primary means by which psychosocial factors influence illness. Focuses on brittle diabetes, noting the potential for family theorists to develop more adequate models of poor self-care and medical crises as…
Descriptors: Diseases, Etiology, Family Problems, Models
Peer reviewedCoyne, James C.; Anderson, Barbara J. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1988
Disputes that original data of Minuchin, Rosman and Baker (1978) support their assertions that some diabetic patients' physiological disturbance serves a function in their families. Concludes that their psychosomatic family model decontextualizes families, assigning to them characteristics more appropriately seen as reflections of the disease…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Diabetes, Family Characteristics
