Psychiatric morbidity in Gotlandic families with schizophrenia

To work as a psychiatrist on the island of Gotland is in much to work in an epidemiological laboratory situation.Since 1976 the author has been fascinated by the epidemiological and social-psychiatric experiences done in daily work on the island, especially regarding the interaction between psychiatric biological heredity and socio-cultural influences.The following article was presented at the $III World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, in Stockholm June 1981 as part of a work outgoing from a group of 27 schizophrenic families on Gotland.