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Psychosocial adversity and child psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Michael L. Rutter
Michael L. Rutter*
Affiliation:
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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Professor Michael Rutter, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill. London SE5 8AF. UK. Tel: 171 919 3873; Fax: 171 919 3866
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Abstract

Background

Despite strong claims that genetic theory' should replace socialisation theory’, there are good grounds for taking seriously the notion that there are psychosocial influences on child psychopathology.

Aims

To re-evaluate this issue in the light of developments over the past half-century.

Method

A wide-ranging review of topics related to this issue, 1948–1998.

Results and conclusions

The findings are used to consider the challenges still to be met as we enter the next century. It is argued that it is necessary to put aside the absurd brain–mind dualisms of the past.

Type
Review Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 174 , Issue 6 , June 1999 , pp. 480 - 493
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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Footnotes

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First presented as the Inaugural Faculty Lecture at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section Annual Residential Meeting. 24–26 September 1998. Bristol.

Declaration of interest

None.

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