Response to the article ‘The role of prenatal stress as a pathway to personality disorder: longitudinal birth cohort study’

Abstract

Much of the distress linked with COVID-19 will be clearly associated with psychosocial problems (isolation, unemployment, bereavement), but some will be firmly biological, following from COVID-19 infection itself. Managing these kinds of complex, biopsychosocial problems is precisely what psychiatry has done for decades. Psychiatry has never been as purely biological as the biologists would like, or as purely psychosocial as others would wish. It is a unique mix, and COVID-19 is our greatest challenge yet.