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When mental health professionals struggle to parent their own child's psychosis

My husband and I are both mental health professionals and our teenage daughter is showing early signs of psychosis, but instead of supporting each other we keep second-guessing each other's clinical judgment and I think our professional knowledge is making us worse at being her parents right now.

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Professional expertise can interfere with parental instincts when the roles converge in intimate relationships.

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