Madness and Genetic Determinism (eBook)

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