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The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies

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Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr.,

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. For societal and family authorities, psychiatry has another political role, an “extra-legal police function.”