Schizophrenia, Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture- About 20% of Americans suffer from mental illness. 50% of us will be diagnosed at one point in our lifetime. Is this a genetic flaw or a traumatic event? Why did we evolve to have mental illness? It doesn’t seem to help reproduction or does it? We talk to Dr. Kevin Volkan, a professor at California State University Channel Islands, and he is talking Schizophrenia, Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture.