Irving Gottesman obituary

American psychologist and behaviour geneticist who radically changed traditional views of schizophreniaThe research and writings of the clinical psychologist and behaviour geneticist Irving Gottesman, who has died aged 85, radically changed the way psychologists and psychiatrists think about schizophrenia and, more generally, about what Irv called the “origins of madness” (which was the subtitle of his 1991 book Schizophrenia Genesis).His path to becoming a dominant figure in psychia