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PublisherSpringer International Publishing A&G

ISBN-103030218686

ISBN-139783030218683

eBay Product ID (ePID)9050392846

Product Key Features

Book TitleMadness and Genetic Determinism : Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?

Number of PagesX, 193 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicLife Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Psychopathology / General, General, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior)

IllustratorYes

GenreScience, Psychology

AuthorPatrick D. Hahn

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal616.89042

Table Of Content1. 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.

SynopsisThe 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., Chapter 1: "Cut the Problem off at the Roots" The Beginning.1.1: "A Social Menace"1.2: "Our Race Must Rapidly Deteriorate" Chapter 2: "He Would Have Sold his Soul to the Devil" Ernst Rüdin and Family Studies.2.1: Task Force 22.2: "Mercy Death"Chapter 3: "Final Solution" Franz Kallmann and Twin Studies.3.1: "Bullheaded Oafs"3.2: "Safely on the March"Chapter 4: "Dire Birth" The Story of the Genain Sisters.4.1: "I Will Find You Wherever You Go"4.2: "A Conscientious Public Official"Chapter 5: Adoption Studies.Chapter 6: "It's Nobody's Fault" The Mass-Marketing of Mental Illness.6.1: The Re-branding of Psychiatry6.2: "DNA Roulette"Chapter 7: The Human Genome Project Era.7.1: "The Worst Disease Affecting Manking"7.2: "Awash in Genes"Chapter 8: "Born Schizophrenic" The Story of January Schofield.8.1: "The Risperdal Didn't Work"8.2: "Her Full Potential Might be Lost"8.3: "The Overriding Factor is Love for the Child"Chapter 9: Blaming the victim" Trauma and Psychosis.9.1: "Infantile Fantasies"9.2: "When Blame is Shifted Outward, So Is Rage"9.3: "Not Just Triggers"9.4: "The Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother"Chapter 10: "We Must Take Great Care" The Asylum Era.10.1: "Moral Therapy"10.2: "The Most Grievous of Human Diseases"10.3: "The Kitchen is Not a Drugstore"10.4: "Dead Bodies"Chapter 11: "To Redeem the World" Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Chestnut Lodge.11.1: Rose Garden11.2: "The Depths of an Inferno"Chapter 12: "I Actually Wanted to Help" Ronald Laing and Kingsley Hall.12.1: "Listening to Nutcases"12.2: "No One Cared"12.3: "A Double Bind"Chapter 13: Soteria House and Open Dialogue Therapy.13.1: "A Crisis in Living"13.2: A Cure for SchizophreniaChapter 14: The Ghosts of Rüdin and Kallmann.

LC Classification NumberQH457