Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?

By Patrick D. Hahn

Book Overview

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 R?din 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 R?din and Kallmann.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030218686
• ISBN13: 9783030218683
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"