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That ‘Praecox feeling’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sebastian Kraemer*
Affiliation:
Tavistock Clinic and Whittington Hospital, London
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Sir: ‘Anonymous’ (Psychiatric Bulletin, July 2001, 25, 275) should not be too worried that his or her children will develop schizophrenia. The Finnish adoptive family study (Reference Tienari, Wynne and MoringTienari et al, 1994) suggests that the genetic risk is buffered by a happy family.

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Tienari, P., Wynne, I. C., Moring, J. et al (1994) The Finnish adoptive family study of schizophrenia. Implications for family research. British Journal of Psychiatry, 164 (suppl. 23), 2026.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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