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Is schizophrenia caused by bad or inappropriate parenting?

April 26, 2017bad caused inappropriate Parenting schizophrenia

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Is schizophrenia caused by bad or inappropriate parenting?

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No. Sigmund Freud developed a theory of the “schizophrenogenic mother” but little or no empirical evidence supports this idea. There is some evidence, however, that “high expressed emotion” parents may worsen the outcome of schizophrenia offspring.