... . The theory does not take into account the possibility that the so-called schizophrenogenic mother's behaviour and attitudes may develop as a consequence of having a schizophrenic child. Even if it could be shown that the mother had certain personality traits before the onset of her child's schizophrenia, it is possible that abnormal or socially deviant characteristics of the pre-schizophrenic ... child might have served to create these traits (Faraone, 1997). There is also another possibility ... mother's of schizophrenic children may have passed the schizophrenic gene to their child....

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