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by devoply 2672 days ago
Even SZ has been associated with poor social relationships, as one of the causal mechanisms. Adler's psychology attributes most psychological issues with poor social relationships. In the 70s there was this whole idea that SZ was caused by bad mothers, something which the feminists had a lot problems with.

In the end we have no way in modern society to address any of the deeper causes, so the technician simply gives you a medicine that chemically manipulates parts of the brains to make them behave differently... in some cases those manipulations cause long term damage to the brain which often is written off as a side effect of the disorder.