https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:18:45 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/eisenberg-leon/42712/ https://wist.info/eisenberg-leon/42712/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:59:36 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=42712 Psychiatry is all biological and all social. there is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height, or how much of the phenotype is due to genes and how much to environment.

Leon Eisenberg (1922–2009) American psychiatrist and medical educator
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