Do Bad Mothers Cause Mental Illness?

Do Bad Mothers Cause Mental Illness?Constant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 896, Segment 2

Mar 3, 2021 • 6m

Why mothers were blamed for everything from autism to psychopathy, and what that had to do with the Cold War. Guest: Anne Harrington, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and author of “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness”

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