Research database: Psychosemiotic Analysis of Non-Complete Sentences of Mothers Suffering from Schizophrenia

With the aim to investigate the attitude of mothers suffering from schizophrenia towards their children we used psychosemiotic analysis and the procedure of biclustering of the semi-structured parental essay in the incomplete-sentence form (test «Рarental composition») of 30 mothers of the clinical group and 30 mentally health mothers. Statistical analysis confirmed the relevance of psychosemiotic parameters. The procedure of biclustering showed that three of the lists of binary parameters show regular combinations that differ in healthy and ill mothers. One of the combinations is found only in the texts of ill mothers and describes a weak parent who cannot withstand ambivalence and sees his child in the perspective of an abstract future. Another combination occurs in the texts of only healthy mothers and describes a parent who is able to withstand ambivalence and perceives the child as a person with his own feelings in the present time.