The Genetics of Schizophrenia: Psychiatry is Over-Emphasizing the Role of Genes in Mental Disorders. This item is unavailable.The Genetics of Schizophrenia: Psychiatry is Over-Emphasizing the Role of Genes in Mental Disorders

In the Genetics of Schizophrenia, Dr. Ross provides a detailed analysis of the literature on the genetics of schizophrenia. He proves by logic and review of published data that, contrary to widespread belief, schizophrenia is at most a little bit genetic. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being diverted from research on the psychological and social causes of mental disorders by psychiatry's over emphasis on the role of genes: Dr. Ross also reviews the genetics of depression, alcoholism, and eating disorders to make this point. The Genetics of Schizophrenia is not an example of anti-psychiatry Dr. Ross is a practicing psychiatrist and his goal is to correct logical and scientific errors in psychiatry.

Colin A. Ross received his M.D. from the University of Alberta in 1981 and completed his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba in 1985. He began writing about the logical and scientific errors in biological psychiatry as a medical student and has published a total of 230 papers in peer reviewed journals, many of them dealing with trauma and psychosis. Two of his previous books focused on critiques of biological psychiatry and psychiatric genetics: Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry (1995) and Schizophrenia: Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment (2004).