Dr Felicity Callard: Does Talk of Genes and Brains in relation to Schizophrenia Really Stop a Mother's Blame?

A really interesting piece of research looking at whether the contemporary neuroscientific explanations of Schizophrenia have taken any blame off mothers after damaging 1950/60s theories such as that of ‘the refrigerator mother’.

“As one mother said wryly, as she ran through all the things that she might have done that could have led to her daughter acquiring schizophrenia, “I suppose mothers blame themselves for everything.”…

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