when ty presento us with clear diagnostic different populaons seem to have different kinds of risk faors. to suffer from major depressio areas are men. dr. knafo and dr. fawcett discuss some of the theories about psychological,iologil, anenronmtal faors that may ctre tohidifference. in addion to wen livin inin our siety,gsocial disae we know, and research h shown, that for women, relationships armore significant than for men. nojust more significant-- and i'm not sang that for men relationships aren't signicant-- but that women are more affecte, by the fate of their reliohips. they define themsees very much according to the relationships that they're in. carol gian, a researcher from harvard, has demonstrated that femininitd through relatedness, while masculinity is largely defined throh separateness. so iany losses otraumas thisin a relationship will be experienced re... more seriously by a woman than by a man-- more depressing. the woman will tend to be more depressed by a loss or a major change in a relationship than a man will be because she defines herself and her success in life th

there are her psychologil faors that may contribute to the onset of schizophrenia. chdhood experiences, unconscious conflicts, the natur some time,mily-- al, e usal factors. one itional the if conoveral viewily-- al, is the concept of the schizophrenogenic family in which overprotectiv or rejecting qualities the parents, especially theother, are thght to be associated schizophrenia in the child. the first theory was advanced by some of the earlier psychoanalytic theorists, and al about thschizophrenia as a result of certain famildynamics. it'shat we refer to asthe sch, e schizophrenogenic mother, or schizophrenogenic father, referring to schizophrenia caused by mother, father, family. to indicate that there is some vality, again,ce in this theory, in some cases. this idea, that the family constellation and its dynamics is the major cause has cently been mofied. a broader approach to the roles has been developed. imptant question that'she roles come out of more modern thinking in terms of psychopathology and psychology is whether possibly that an impairnt in a child