The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes
de Joseph, Jay
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0875864104
- ISBN 13
- 9780875864105
- Librería
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Algora Publishing, 2006. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 324pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
What causes psychiatric disorders to appear? Are they primarily the result of people's environments, or of their genes? Increasingly, we are told that research has confirmed the importance of genetic influences on schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism. But it is not true, as frequently reported in the popular media, that genes for the major psychiatric disorders have already been discovered. In fact, researchers' initial "discoveries" are rarely replicated. Research methods such as family, twin, and adoption studies have laid the foundations for the current worldwide effort to identify the genes presumed underlie these conditions; Dr. Jay Joseph argues that molecular genetic researchers would be well advised to take a hard second look at these foundations, which are far weaker than they believe. Theories based on genetic research are having a profound impact on both scientific and public thinking, as well as on social policy decisions. In addition, genetic theories influence the types of clinical treatments received by people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Yet, as the author demonstrates, these theories do not stand up to critical examination. Like his previous work, The Gene Illusion, Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope, this will be a controversial book and it is sure to spark intense discussion among those interested in the causes of mental disorders. The author challenges many positions viewed by mainstream psychiatry and psychology as established facts. He devotes individual chapters to ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder. In the process, he shows that textbooks and othersecondary sources sometimes provide misleading or inaccurate accounts of research put forward as supporting the genetic position. This book provides an important counterargument to the current widespread belief that our destiny lies in our genes. As gene-finding exercises continue to fail and the weakness of the premise becomes more apparent, we may look for a paradigm shift in psychiatry away from genetic and biological explanations of mental disorders and towards a greater understanding of how family, social, and political environments contribute to human psychological distress. Jay Joseph, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Since 1998, his articles on genetic research in psychiatry and psychology have appeared in journals such as Developmental Review, The American Journal of Psychology; Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs; Politics and the Life Sciences; History of Psychiatry; The Journal of Mind and Behavior; Psychiatric Quarterly; New Ideas in Psychology; and Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. He is currently an Associate Editor of Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, and an Assessing Editor of The Journal of Mind and Behavior. The 2003 United Kingdom edition of his first book, The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope, was followed by a revised 2004 North American edition by Algora Publishing.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
What causes psychiatric disorders to appear? Are they primarily the result of people's environments, or of their genes? Increasingly, we are told that research has confirmed the importance of genetic influences on schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism. But it is not true, as frequently reported in the popular media, that genes for the major psychiatric disorders have already been discovered. In fact, researchers' initial "discoveries" are rarely replicated. Research methods such as family, twin, and adoption studies have laid the foundations for the current worldwide effort to identify the genes presumed underlie these conditions; Dr. Jay Joseph argues that molecular genetic researchers would be well advised to take a hard second look at these foundations, which are far weaker than they believe. Theories based on genetic research are having a profound impact on both scientific and public thinking, as well as on social policy decisions. In addition, genetic theories influence the types of clinical treatments received by people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Yet, as the author demonstrates, these theories do not stand up to critical examination. Like his previous work, The Gene Illusion, Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope, this will be a controversial book and it is sure to spark intense discussion among those interested in the causes of mental disorders. The author challenges many positions viewed by mainstream psychiatry and psychology as established facts. He devotes individual chapters to ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder. In the process, he shows that textbooks and othersecondary sources sometimes provide misleading or inaccurate accounts of research put forward as supporting the genetic position. This book provides an important counterargument to the current widespread belief that our destiny lies in our genes. As gene-finding exercises continue to fail and the weakness of the premise becomes more apparent, we may look for a paradigm shift in psychiatry away from genetic and biological explanations of mental disorders and towards a greater understanding of how family, social, and political environments contribute to human psychological distress. Jay Joseph, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Since 1998, his articles on genetic research in psychiatry and psychology have appeared in journals such as Developmental Review, The American Journal of Psychology; Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs; Politics and the Life Sciences; History of Psychiatry; The Journal of Mind and Behavior; Psychiatric Quarterly; New Ideas in Psychology; and Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. He is currently an Associate Editor of Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, and an Assessing Editor of The Journal of Mind and Behavior. The 2003 United Kingdom edition of his first book, The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope, was followed by a revised 2004 North American edition by Algora Publishing.(Publisher).
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Detalles
- Librería
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 14826
- Título
- The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes
- Autor
- Joseph, Jay
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0875864104
- ISBN 13
- 9780875864105
- Editorial
- Algora Publishing
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- Price Raise $5
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Sobre el vendedor
Underground Books, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
Sobre Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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