Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
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Abstract

'I'll kill the Planning Officer: Family Therapy Case Study

Wendy Thomson

This is a case history of a family in crisis. To prevent the situation escalating decisions needed to be made and acted upon. The fathers undetected personality disorder was the precipitating factor the children were merely reacting to the dynamics operating within the family. The mother was unable to intervene or to influence the situation and protect the children or the entrenched belief system of her husband. Although the intervention at the time appeared successful, with the passage of time and the knowledge of the untimely death of the mother the author (a scientific researcher ) drew the conclusion that living under the toxic influence of a husband with a personality disorder can be costly in terms of mortality.