Reviews
"This book, edited and written by pioneers in the field, attempts to 'translate' this burgeoning science for practicing psychiatrists... This is an excellent introduction to the exploding knowledge in molecular genetics and its implications for the practice of psychiatry.."- Michael J. Schrift, Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal , April, 2005, "On what do almost all psychiatrists agree? First, that people are born with different personalities and temperaments and that these predispositions have important effects on our ultimate emotional and behavioral repertoires. Second, that the experiences we have from birth have tremendous influence on the ways in which our predetermined personalities and temperaments shape our ultimate mental lives. Psychopharmacologists, cognitive psychologists, and psychoanalysts, I believe, would find nothing especially controversial, provocative, or heretical about these statements. What is missing from the statements, however, is a fundamental understanding of why these facts are so. Read, however, Research Advances in Genetics and Genomics: Implications for Psychiatry , a wonderful book edited by a sage in our field, Nancy C. Andreasen M.D. Ph.D., and come away feeling that one is as close as one can be to understanding why we are the way we are. The approach to genomics in this important volume is entirely free of cant, divisive rhetoric, or partisanship. Rather, it lays out for us the ways in which genes and the environment are likely to play out their exquisite relationship to determine who will be obsessive, who will hallucinate, and who will survive enormous stress with consistent equanimity. This book gives the reader the technical basis for understanding some of the most fundamental aspects of human behavior and emotion, the very things that psychiatrists deal with on a daily basis. As such, it is must reading."- Jack M. Gorman, M.D., Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, This book, edited and written by pioneers in the field, attempts to 'translate' this burgeoning science for practicing psychiatrists... This is an excellent introduction to the exploding knowledge in molecular genetics and its implications for the practice of psychiatry.., "This is a rare book in which all the chapters are informative, succinct, and written for the enjoyment of both novices to the field (with appropriate recapitulations of basic concepts peppered throughout) and more knowledgeable readers (who will appreciate this volume in effect synthesizes the state of the field)."- Anne L. Glowinski, PsychCritiques , January, 2006, "This short volume, edited by the Editor-in-Chief of the renown American Journal of Psychiatry , brings together for the first time in book form to my knowledge current strides in the research towards the Holy Grail of human genetics; finding the genetic markers of mental illness.Ruth E. Nieuwenhuis-Mark Ph.D., Metapsychology Online Book Reviews, December 2005"- Ruth E. Nieuwenhuis-Mark, Ph.D., Metapsychology Online Book Reviews , December, 2005
