Well, first of all, I don&#x27;t think that psychiatry has for decades claimed that &quot;schizophrenia is caused by refrigerator moms&quot;, even though the downfall of that claim may have been more due to political pressure than medical research.<p>And secondly, whether therapy does any good is a completely different question from what is causing schizophrenia - although here we are talking about <i>triggering</i> it rather than <i>causing</i> it.<p>I have a friend who came up with schizophrenia just when graduating from university, and it was indeed devastating. But the endless therapy helps him a bit.