Beyond Nature and Nurture in Psychiatry : Genes, Environment and their Interplay

The nature-nurture debate is finally over: and both sides were wrong.

Psychiatric disorders are rarely determined by genes or environment alone.

Not only are nature and nurture both important, but they often interact with one another.

This book presents the fascinating new data that have led to this conclusion, and discusses the methodological and conceptual challenges that lie ahead.

Based on lectures presented at the third meeting of the European Foundation for Psychiatry at the Maudsley (EFPM), this book will be important to psychiatrists, psychologists, epidemiologists and geneticists.

The foreword is written by James D Watson.