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The view that schizophrenia is somehow due to the way parents act with their children has had wide publicity in the media over the past 15 years. Concepts like ‘the double-bind’ have become part of our everyday language, and terms like ‘schizophrenogenic mother’ strike a familiar note in most of us.
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Hirsch, S.R. (1978). Current Status of the Parental Causation Hypothesis in Schizophrenia. In: Current Themes in Psychiatry 1. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03642-4_4
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