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The missing gene : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes

Title
The missing gene : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes / Jay Joseph.
Author
Joseph, Jay.
Publication
New York : Algora Pub., ©2006.

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Description
x, 324 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Researchers still haven't found the genes that underlie schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and autism; perhaps they do not exist. A genetic researcher in psychiatry and psychology urges we return our focus to family, social, and political environments as the sources of psychological distress.
Subject
  • Genetic psychology
  • Mental illness > Genetic aspects
  • Biological Psychiatry > trends
  • Mental Disorders > genetics
  • Diseases in Twins > genetics
  • Genetic Research
  • Psychische Störung
  • Erbe-Umwelt-Problem
  • Erblichkeit
  • Milieu
  • Psychopathologie
  • Erfelijkheid
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-308) and indexes.
Contents
The twin method: science or pseudoscience? -- ADHD genetic research -- A critique of the spectrum concept as used in the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies -- Pellagra and genetic research -- A generation misinformed: psychiatry and psychology textbooks' inaccurate accounts of schizophrenia adoption research -- Irving Gottesman's 1991 schizophrenia genesis: a primary scource for misunderstanding the genetics of schizophrenia -- Autism and genetics: much ado about very little -- The 1942 "Euthanasia" debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry -- The twin method's Achilles' heel: a critical review of the equal environment assumption test literature -- Bipolar disorder and genetics -- Genotype or genohype? the fruitless search for genes in psychiatry.
ISBN
  • 0875864104
  • 9780875864105
  • 0875864112
  • 9780875864112
  • 0875864120
  • 9780875864129
LCCN
2005025161
OCLC
  • ocm61456586
  • 61456586
  • SCSB-9776384
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library