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Over a decade ago I wrote a critical review of the literature about family influences on ‘schizophrenia’ under the title ‘Do Families Cause “Schizophrenia”? Revisiting a Taboo Subject’ (Johnstone, 1999). The controversy has recently resurfaced in a slightly different form, in relation to the debate about the role of trauma and abuse in the development of ‘psychosis’.
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Johnstone, L. (2011). Can Traumatic Events Traumatize People? Trauma, Madness and ‘Psychosis’. In: Rapley, M., Moncrieff, J., Dillon, J. (eds) De-Medicalizing Misery. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230342507_8
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