Editor's note: Dr. Charles
Raison, CNNhealth's mental health expert, is an associate professor of
psychiatry at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Ever noticed how scientific opinions swing from one extreme to the other?Take the importance of mothers in the development of children. In the early days of psychiatry almost every mental illness, from depression to schizophrenia to autism was blamed on bad mothering. Then in the 1960’s and 70’s the discovery of medications that helped these illnesses allowed psychiatry to reframe them as biological conditions, no different from cancer or heart disease. Parents were fully absolved for the mental illnesses of their children, except to the degree that they passed along bad genes that caused chemical imbalances in the brain.
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