Irving I. Gottesman (1930–2016)
Författare till Schizophrenia And Manic-Depressive Disorder
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Irving Isadore Gottesman was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1930. He served in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and was a communications officer for three years during the Korean War. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1953 visa mer and a doctorate in psychology from the University of Minnesota. He taught at several universities during his lifetime including Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Virginia, and the University of Minnesota. His work on the role of heredity in schizophrenia helped transform the way people thought about the origins of mental illness. In the 1960s, he conducted a study of schizophrenia in British twins with James Shields. The study, which found that identical twins were more likely than fraternal twins to share a diagnosis of schizophrenia, provided strong evidence for a genetic component to the illness and challenged the prevailing view at the time that it was caused by bad mothering. The findings also emphasized the contribution of a patient's environment. He also studied several other aspects of human behavior, from autism and alcoholism to violence and post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans. He wrote 17 books and more than 300 papers. He died on June 29, 2016 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Gottesman, Irving Isadore
- Födelsedag
- 1930-12-29
- Avled
- 2016-06-29
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Dödsort
- Edina, Minnesota, USA
- Utbildning
- Illinois Institute of Technology
University of Minnesota (PhD) - Yrken
- Psychologist
- Organisationer
- University of Minnesota
- Kort biografi
- Dr Gottesman studied twins with mental illness and determined that schizophrenia is caused at least in part by genetics (not parenting, as previously thought). He also brought terms from biology into use in psychology as well.
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So the study covers sixty-six(66) pairs of twins and how they developed the symptoms and whether or not both of the twins got the mental illness. With charts and graphs it statistically analyzes the illness.
The other problem can be inferred from the date of publication. This book is 22 years old. It is legally old enough to vote and drink alcohol in all 50 States and maybe even in other countries. Now that might not be a problem if the study was static or something, but in the field of Genetics and Schizophrenia? It was moving so fast back then already. The Human Genome Project was still running. Bill Clinton was President. That stuff is crazy old.
Dropped due to all of this, and it just didn't capture my attention. Two out of five.… (mer)