ROOM 102
IS IT MY FAULT?
Is it my fault that I got this terrible disease?  For parents or guardians, did I do something to give my child this awful disorder?  After all, Freud told us that childhood experiences can result in mental disorders later in life.  And Freud was a genius, right?  So, he must have been right.

WRONG!  It is not your fault that you got schizophrenia.  And it is not your parents' faults...no matter who tries to tell you otherwise.  Yes, Freud was a genius and he did much to introduce brain disorders to the general public.  Unfortunately, his ideas about brain diseases still run amok through our society like a bad tick of which your dog cannot rid himself.  Freud himself admitted that he knew very little about schizophrenia and he refused to see anyone with the disease in his office.  So, genius that Freud was, he did not know everything.

Some disorders can be caused by childhood experiences.  Those disorders include Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the controversial Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder), but schizophrenia is not one of those disorders that can be caused by bad parenting.
Sigmund Freud gave us the psychoanalytic theory of brain diseases.  In this system, childhood experiences were thought to be the causes of brain disorders.  For example, someone stuck in Freud's anal stage would either be anal retentive or anal expulsive.  Check your bedroom out, then decide what Freud and his followers would label you.  Although he did much to popularize brain diseases, Dr. Freud probably set psychiatry back 50  years...or more. 
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