Expressed Emotion in Psychiatric Disorders

Abstract

Expressed emotion (EE) is currently among the most thoroughly investigated psychosocial research constructs in psychiatry. Expressed emotion (EE) is the general re?ection of the family's attitude towards the patient as a precursor to relapse in major psychiatric disorders. On the basis of recent research on EE many family intervention programmes have been developed to reduce EE of the family and consequent relapse of illness