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Learning Objective 1: learn how culture attribute to the adaptation of schizophrenia, especially, in Taiwanese culture where collectivism and ‘one-man-a life-time’ marriage are highly praised.
Learning Objective 2: learn how Chinese family performs a healing web for schizophrenic patients when culture propels family to take full responsibility after the movement of deinstitutionalization.
By using in-depth interview and participant observation guided by phenomenological methodology, researchers interviewed seven Chinese women whose husbands were diagnosed as schizophrenia to obtain the impacts of those wives experienced and the strive to transforming disadvantage into healing power for husbands in cultural system. Results: the first story line ’My son VS Your husband ‘: the concern about their sons being abandoned has driven desperate parents-in-law to take extreme measures to ensure the permanent company of daughters-in-law including “domestic custody”, “financial aids”, “stress over cultural roles”, and “the shackle of guilt”. The second story line ‘My husband VS My son’: the powerlessness and inability to free themselves from the crunch of their cultural roles has resulted in the surrender of choice, leaving women no viable alternatives but to maintain the operation of family by offering both parental and spousal assistance as a mother and wife including “How to be a husband”, “How to love your children as a father”, and “How to respect your father as a child”. Conclusions: A Chinese parents actively interfere with the ways of their daughter-in-law cares to their schizophrenic son by closely monitoring the action women provide to patient. Chinese female spouses are asked to stay in marriage, enduring the stress and responsibilities that ensue from the Chinese tradition and culture. b. the schizophrenic patient is given the chance by his wife’s arrangement to learn his respective roles at home better by partaking in family matters such as helping them with easy school assignments. Children are also encouraged by their mother to feel the presence of “Dad” without unnecessary frictions. Through greater understanding of the disorder, the effort made by the lady of the house can convert the patient into a competent father and husband and “regularize” her family according to common standards.