Hahn Madness and Genetic Determinism

Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-21866-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hahn, Patrick D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Acknowledgments;7
3;Contents;8
4;Chapter 1: The Beginning;10
4.1;The Roots of the Problem;11
4.2;A Call to Arms;13
5;Chapter 2: Ernst Rüdin and Family Studies;18
5.1;Task Force 2;19
5.2;The Killing Program;20
6;Chapter 3: Franz Kallmann and Twin Studies;30
6.1;An Arduous Task;31
6.2;The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics in America;34
7;Chapter 4: The Story of the Genain Sisters;43
7.1;A Horror Show of a Childhood;44
7.2;Aftermath;50
8;Chapter 5: Adoption Studies;55
9;Chapter 6: The Mass-Marketing of Mental Illness;65
9.1;The Re-branding of Psychiatry;66
9.2;Well-Behaved Little Superachievers;68
10;Chapter 7: The Human Genome Project Era;76
10.1;Promises Made;77
10.2;Promises Unfulfilled;81
11;Chapter 8: The Story of January Schofield;90
11.1;A Portent of Things to Come;90
11.2;An Ugly Incident;95
11.3;“The overriding factor is love for the child”;98
11.4;A Case of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy?;101
12;Chapter 9: Trauma and Psychosis;105
12.1;A Message That Went Unheard;108
12.2;Heartbreaking Realities;111
12.3;“Not just triggers”;115
12.4;The Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother;116
13;Chapter 10: The Asylum Era and Moral Therapy;125
13.1;Moral Therapy;126
13.2;“The most grievous of human diseases”;128
13.3;Order and Discipline;130
13.4;Astonishing Findings;131
14;Chapter 11: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Chestnut Lodge;136
14.1;Rose Garden;137
14.2;The Decline and Fall of Chestnut Lodge;141
15;Chapter 12: Ronald Laing and Kingsley Hall;145
15.1;The Land of the Dead;146
15.2;A Quixotic Undertaking;148
15.3;A Troubled and Troubling Figure;149
16;Chapter 13: Soteria House and Open Dialogue Therapy;153
16.1;A Compassionate Alternative;153
16.2;A Cure for Schizophrenia;156
17;Chapter 14: The Ghosts of Rüdin and Kallmann;159
18;References;175
19;Index;194