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Over the last thirty years, there has been a radical shift in thinking about the causes of mental illness. The psychiatric establishment and the health care industry have shifted 180 degrees from blaming mother to blaming the brain as the source of mental disorders. Whereas experience and... read more

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American psychiatry is said to have changed from blaming the mother to blaming the brain.

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  1. Elliot Valenstein (Author)

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