Genetic Approaches to Mental Disorders

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ELLIOT S. GERSHON AND C. ROBERT CLONINGER, EDS.: Genetic Approaches to Mental Disorders. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, 1994, 376 pp., $43.50.

This is a specialized book that can bring the reader up to date on the state of the art in psychiatric genetics. The reader should take the title seriously; the book lays out current approaches, while making it clear that these have thus far yielded few if any replicable findings.

The American Psychopathological Society, at whose 1992 Annual Meeting these papers and discussions were presented, has in past years published the classical papers of Kallmann on twin and family studies and of Kety and his group on adoption …