Madness and Genetic Determinism | Buch

Cover: 9783030218652 | Madness and Genetic Determinism | Is Mental Illness in Our Genes? | x

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Beschreibung

The book covers important topics in the psychiatric genetics (PG) field. Many of these have been overlooked in mainstream accounts, and many contemporary PG researchers have omitted or whitewashed the eugenic and ¿racial hygiene¿ origins of the field. The author critically analyzes PG evidence in support of genetic claims which, given the lack of gene discoveries, are based mainly on the results of psychiatric twin and adoption studies. Given that the evidence in favor of genetic influences is much weaker than mainstream sources report, due to serious issues in twin and adoption research, the author points to environmental factors, including trauma, as the main causes of conditions such as schizophrenia.

Über den Autor

Patrick D Hahn is an Affiliate Professor of Biology at Loyola University Maryland, USA, and a freelance writer.

Zusammenfassung

Challenges theories of genetic determinism for mental illness, particularly schizophrenia

Discusses weaknesses of past research in twin and adoption studies to suggest that environmental factors play a major role in mental illness

Provides a historical examination of mental illness with particular focus on institutionalization

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Beginning.- 2. Ernst Rüdin and Family Studies.- 3. Franz Kallmann and Twin Studies.- 4. The Story of the Genain Sisters.- 5. Adoption Studies.- 6. The Mass-Marketing of Mental Illness.- 7. The Human Genome Project Era.- 8. The Story of January Schofield.- 9. Trauma and Psychosis.- 10. The Asylum Era and Moral Therapy.- 11. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Chestnut Lodge.- 12. Ronald Laing and Kingsley Hall.- 13. Soteria House and Open Dialogue Therapy.- 14. The Ghosts of Rüdin and Kallmann.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Theoretische Psychologie
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	x 193 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030218652
ISBN-10:	3030218651
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hahn, Patrick D.
Auflage:	1st edition 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick D. Hahn
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.07.2019
Gewicht:	0,383 kg

Artikel-ID: 116538940