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News, Views and Comments perhaps they were legitimate and not tion accorded him by Festschrift cologists II: Interviews by David Healy (pp. to be feared as symptoms. He hoped to attendees; the crowd of colleagues, 377–407). London: Altman. fully embrace and enjoy these feelings, students and friends knew his feel- Myrianthopoulos, N. C., Nichols, P. L., Broman, S. H., & Anderson, V. E. (1972). Intellectual yet the cool hand of caution kept them ings were/are legitimate. development of a prospectively studied popu- in partial check. Additional information about the lation of twins and comparison with I have known Irving Gottesman life and work of Professor Irving singletons. In J. de Grouchy, F. J. G. Ebling, for many years. The weight of his and I. W. Henderson (Eds.), Human genetics: Gottesman can be found in the refer- Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress scholarship is evident, perhaps best ences listed at the end of this article of Human Genetics (pp. 243–257). demonstrated by his receipt of the and on his homepage: <http://www. Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica. 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award in people.virginia.edu/~iig> Newman, H. H., Freeman, F. N., & Holzinger, K. Psychiatric Genetics from the J. (1937). Twins: A study of heredity and envi- International Society for Psychiatric References ronment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Genetics — the only such honor ever Gottesman, I. I. Biography (unpublished). Price, R. A., & Gottesman, I. I. (1991). Body fat in identical twins reared apart: Roles for genes received by a psychologist. Like Gottesman, I. I., & Bertelsen, A. (1989). and environment. Behavior Genetics, 21, 1–8. Confirming unexpressed genotypes for schizo- Gottesman, I would, however, go Segal, N. L. (2000). Entwined lives: Twins and phrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 46, beyond the obvious to note that no what they tell us about human behavior. New 867–872. one has grasped the texture of York: Plume. Gottesman, I.I., & Shields, J. (1972). Schizo- Torrey, E. F., Bowler, A. E., Taylor, E. H., & science, the culture of the field or the phrenia and genetics: A twin study vantage rules of research better than he has – Gottesman, I. I. (1994). Schizophrenia and point. New York: Academic Press. manic depressive disorder: The biological roots of he is a master at it. In conclusion, I Healy, D. (1998). Irving Gottesman: Predisposed mental illness as revealed by a landmark study of would urge him to relish the recogni- toward predispositions. The Psychopharma- identical twins. New York: Basic Books. ■ Abstracts from the Festschrift — Foreword Lisabeth F.DiLalla Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, USA University of Virginia, Dr. Gottesman Hospital, Germany), Susan Trumbetta The purpose of this Festschrift was to returned to the University of Minnesota (Vassar College), and Eric Turkheimer honor the distinguished scientific where he was formerly a Professor of (University of Virginia). The symposia career of Dr. Irving I. Gottesman, Psychology. He will have appointments discussants were Drs. Lisabeth DiLalla whose work on schizophrenia and the at the Psychiatry Department at the (Southern Illinois University School of behavior genetics of personality and University of Minnesota School Medicine), Dan Hanson (University of psychopathology, primarily through of Medicine and at the Veterans Minnesota), William Iacono twin research, has permeated the Administration Hospital in Minn- (University of Minnesota), Sandra Scarr thinking of both the scientific commu- eapolis, where he will continue his (Emerita, University of Virginia), and nity and the public at large. The research and collaborations. S. Charles Schulz (University of Festschrift was held in Minneapolis, The presenters at the Festschrift were Minnesota School of Medicine). Lunch MN, on June 8th and 9th, 2001, and Dr. Gottesman’s students, colleagues, discussion group leaders were Drs. brought together a remarkable group and friends. They included Drs. Aksel Sheri Berenbaum (Southern Illinois of researchers whose work has been Bertelsen (Aarhus Psychiatric Hospital, University School of Medicine), touched, both directly and indirectly, Denmark), Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. Leonard Heston (Emeritus, Univ. of by Dr. Gottesman over the past 35 (University of Minnesota), Greg Carey Washington School of Medicine), Ann years. The title of the Festschrift (University of Colorado), David Masten (University of Minnesota), reflects the many areas of research in DiLalla (Southern Illinois University), Vishwajit Nimgaonkar (University of which Dr. Gottesman has been actively Niki Erlenmeyer-Kimling (Columbia Pittsburgh), Susan Resnick (National involved. Speakers came from all over University), Anne Farmer (King’s Institutes of Health), and Nancy Segal the world to present research and to re- College London), H. Hill Goldsmith (California State University, Fullerton). establish ties with each other and with (University of Wisconsin), Matt Dr. Gottesman is internationally Dr. Gottesman. The conference was McGue (University of Minnesota), renowned for his extensive and held in Minneapolis because, following Peter McGuffin (Kings College innovative work in many areas of his retirement this spring from the London), Hans Moises (Kiel University psychopathology, most notably his twin Twin Research August 2001 277 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.229, on 28 Sep 2021 at 15:45:13, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1375/twin.4.4.277 Nancy L. Segal research on schizophrenia. He recently to apply polygenic/threshold models of everyone had a chance to contribute by was awarded the Distinguished Scientific inheritance to the field of psy- either presenting, asking questions, or Contributions Award from APA. Receipt chopathology. Their threshold model interacting one-on-one. This was a of this Award reflects the committee neatly describes the mechanism by chance not only for old friends to meet consensus that he is “at the absolute top which behavior varies from normal to again, but also for students to meet of the field”. His research focuses on abnormal, positing that genetic and some of the people they had only read genetic principles and the many ways environmental risks for psychopathol- about. The gathering mixed scientists that genetic factors interact with and ogy exist, and that an accumulation of from every rank, from students through augment environmental influences that sufficient risks can push an individual emeriti, and provided us with a wonder- lead to psychopathology. His innovative over the threshold from normal behav- ful opportunity to learn, to teach, and work with twin populations, including ior to psychopathology. Fewer risks to think. Further information about the the study of identical twin pairs discor- may result in sub-threshold manifesta- Festschrift can be found on the web dant for schizophrenia and other tions of unusual behavior, but not in page at <www.siumed. edu/iigfest>. psychopathologies, has greatly influenced overt psychopathology. A second much of the behavior genetics literature. model of development is his reaction References Dr. Gottesman’s impact on the field is range concept (Gottesman, 1963), Gottesman, I. I. (1963). The efficiency of several combinations of discrete and continuous vari- evident not only through his own work, more recently elaborated into a reac- ables for the diagnosis of zygosity. Proceedings, but also through the work of the large tion threshold model (Turkheimer, Second International Congress of Human number of students whom he has men- Goldsmith, & Gottesman, 1995). This Genetics (pp 346–347). Rome: G. Mendel tored and who have gone on themselves model elegantly describes the ways that Institute. to make major contributions to the fields genetic and environmental influences Gottesman, I. I., & Moldin, S. O. (1999). Schizophrenia and genetic risks: A guide to of psychology and psychopathology. separately create limits for the expres- genetic counseling for consumers, their families, Included at the Festschrift were both stu- sion of behavior, resulting in behaviors and mental health workers, 2nd ed. Arlington, dents and colleagues who fall into this that are multiply determined, but have VA: NAMI. category, many of whom currently upper and lower limits as a function of Gottesman, I. I., & Shields, J. (1967). A poly- genic theory of schizophrenia. Science, 156, conduct leading edge research on twins both genetic and environmental influ- 537–538. as a direct result of their interactions ences. Dr. Gottesman first introduced Turkheimer, E., Goldsmith, H. H., & with Dr. Gottesman. Drs. Goldsmith, this concept from the genetics litera- Gottesman, I. I. (1995). Commentary — McGue, and Carey were graduate stu- ture into psychology, and now it is Some conceptual deficiencies in ‘developmen- dents of Dr. Gottesman’s at the included in nearly every introductory tal’ behavior genetics. Human Development, 38, 142–153. University of Minnesota in the 1970’s. psychology textbook. Dr. Bouchard is a self-proclaimed Dr. Gottesman’s treatment of his mentee of Dr. Gottesman from their research topics is impressive in its shared faculty time at the University of mixture of science and compassion. He Presentation Abstracts Minnesota. Drs. Farmer and McGuffin has always been sensitive to issues of ■ were post-doctoral fellows at Washington genetic determinism and has been clear Developmental