This book discusses the work that the author has undertaken over the last twenty-five years, as well as the work of generations of mental health practitioners over the last one hundred years, which demonstrates that broken attachments, and in particular a type of attachment that the author refers to as the &quot;infanticidal attachment&quot;, may play a pivotal role in the development of the schizophrenic psychoses.<i>The Infanticidal Origins of Psychosis: The Role of Trauma in Schizophrenia</i> includes chapters such as &quot;The Ravages of Schizophrenia&quot;, &quot;The Aetiology of Schizophrenia&quot;, &quot;Theories of Biopathogenesis&quot; and &quot;Schizophrenia and the Holocaust&quot;.