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