Can bad mothers and dysfunctional families cause young people to become schizophrenic? We know that, as recently as a generation ago, a large sector of Anglo-American psychiatry and clinical psychology believed that they could. Elite private hospitals offered patients with schizophrenia intensive forms of psychoanalytic therapy designed to uncover the trauma responsible for their suffering. Mothers of children with schizophrenia were given personality tests designed to discern what specific traits might be responsible for their children's distress; and family patterns of interaction were studied with an eye to unmasking the specific "crazy-making" dynamics.
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