ASchizophrenia and a damaging blame game | Letters

Deborah Orr is right to voice concern in her report of Oliver James’s psychological theorising and the harm it might do (Oliver James is wrong to blame parents for their children’s mental illness, 12 March). If it is as reported, James would be way out of his domain in considering that psychological abnormalities and serious mental illness like schizophrenia can have only psychological causes and never genetic causes. Unfortunately the genetic evidence is highly complex and technical