ABSTRACT
The study of the family has become a vast field of its own. The work of practitioners such as Nathan Ackerman, Murray Bowen, and Robin Skynner possesses an interest that extends outside the medical area, but although it merits the attention of anyone involved with the stroke victim’s family, it has seldom been concerned with neurological disease. Published studies about the effect of stroke on the family have mostly been concerned with socioeconomic rather than psychodynamic factors.
