Whatever Became of the Schizophrenogenic Mother?
Abstract
This article chronicles the rise and fall of the concept of the “schizophrenogenic mother” popular in the psychotherapeutic literature from the 1940s to the 1970s. Sociocultural and ideological factors leading to the use of this damaging hypothesis—that women could “cause” schizophrenia in their offspring—are discussed.
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