05078nam 2200649 a 450 991078616570332120230617025914.00-87586-345-01-4175-6159-9(CKB)2670000000319259(EBL)318706(OCoLC)476114185(SSID)ssj0000161305(PQKBManifestationID)11151948(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161305(PQKBWorkID)10198750(PQKB)10256564(MiAaPQ)EBC318706(Au-PeEL)EBL318706(CaPaEBR)ebr10476709(OCoLC)437191876(EXLCZ)99267000000031925920040727d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe gene illusion[electronic resource] genetic research in psychiatry and psychology under the microscope /Jay JosephNew York Algora Pub.20041 online resource (417 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87586-343-4 0-87586-344-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""The Gene Illusion""; ""The Gene Illusion""; ""Genetic Research""; ""in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope""; ""Jay Joseph, Psy.D.""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""Outline of the Chapters""; ""Family Studies""; ""Terms Used in the Book""; ""Chapter 2. Twin Research: Misunderstanding Twins, From Galton to the 21st Century""; ""Twin Research from 1870 to 1924""; ""Galton""; ""Thorndike""; ""Origins of the Twin Method""; ""Developments in Twin Research, 1924-1945""; ""Early Criticism of the Twin Method""""Developments in North America"" ""Twins Reared Apart""; ""The Co-twin Control Method""; ""Twin Research in Germany""; ""Twin Research From 1945-1960""; ""Kallmann""; ""Selected Topics in Twin Research""; ""Twin Research From 1960 to 1980""; ""Don Jackson's Critique of Schizophrenia Twin Research""; ""Nadir""; ""Twin Research Makes a Comeback""; ""Twin Research in the 1970's""; ""Twin Research from 1980 to the Present""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 3. The Twin Method: An Environmentally Confounded Research Technique""; ""The Equal Environment Assumption (EEA)""; ""Two Definitions""""Do Identical and Fraternal Twins Create Differing Environments?"" ""Kendler's Theoretical Retreat""; ""A Critique of the Trait-Relevant Equal Environment Assumption""; ""Family Studies and the Trait-Relevant EEA""; ""What Leading Twin Researchers Say About the EEA""; ""Attempts to Test the Validity of the Equal Environment Assumption""; ""Loehlin and Nichols, 1976""; ""Scarr and Carter-Saltzman""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 4: Genetic Studies of Twins Reared Apart: A Critical Review""; ""Part I: Identical Twins Reared Apart as Folklore""; ""Influence of the Cohort""""Part II: Scientific Studies of Twins Reared Apart"" ""The Myth of the Separated Identical Twins""; ""The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart""; ""Secret Data, Secret Lives""; ""Environmental Factors Contributing to MZA Resemblance""; ""What About the DZA Correlations?""; ""MZTs (or DZAs) as the Control Group: The Invalidating Flaw of All Twins Reared Apart Studies""; ""What a Valid MZA Study Might Look Like""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 5. The Heritability Concept: A Measure of Inheritance or Inherently Misleading?""; ""What Heritability Is and What It Is Not""""Origins of the Heritability Concept"" ""What is the Purpose of a Heritability Coefficient?""; ""An Exchange on the Meaning of Heritability""; ""A Heritability Estimate: The Product of Environmentally Confounded Research""; ""Heritability and Psychiatric Disorders""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 6. The Genetics of Schizophrenia I: Overview""; ""History and Prevalence of Schizophrenia""; ""The Genetic Theory of Schizophrenia""; ""Schizophrenia Twin Research""; ""Three Low Concordance Rate Studies""; ""Schizophrenia Twin Researchers' Interpretations of Concordance Rate Differences""""Same Sex- and Opposite-Sex Fraternal Twin Concordance Rates""Genetic factors are increasingly presented as an important influence on psychiatric disorders, personality, intelligence, and various types of socially unacceptable behavior - as if that were an unassailable fact, proven by research. Jay Joseph's timely,Mental illnessGenetic aspectsGenetic psychologyTwinsPsychologyResearchMethodologyMental illnessGenetic aspects.Genetic psychology.TwinsPsychologyResearchMethodology.616.89/042Joseph Jay1508663MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786165703321The gene illusion3777691UNINA