Psychological Disorders: Nurture as Opposed to Nature

You got your blue eyes from your mother, and your hair colour from your father, but where did you get your vast imagination and obsession for perfection? For a long time people believed that psychological disorders could be traced to the genome. But a new study by Glen O. Gabbard, a distinguished professor of Psychoanalysis, concluded that it was the nurturing a child received, not nature, which was the cause of various mental disorders. This lead to an ongoing debate over the true nature of mental illness. Therefore, I believe that Psychological disorders are more related to nurture as op…