The gene illusion [[electronic resource] ] : genetic research in psychiatry and psychology under the microscope / / Jay Joseph

• Autore: Joseph Jay
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Algora Pub., 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/042
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness - Genetic aspects; Genetic psychology; Twins - Psychology - Research - Methodology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: The gene illusion
• ISBN: 0-87586-345-0; 1-4175-6159-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827100403321
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