Do Bad Mothers Cause Mental Illness?

Do Bad Mothers Cause Mental Illness?

Constant Wonder

Phrenology: The Shape of the Skull and Moral Character

Episode: Phrenology: The Shape of the Skull and Moral Character

  • Mar 3, 2021 7:00 pm
  • 5:23 mins

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”