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By the last generation, the weak child can no longer function and may be beyond cure. Says Bowen: "There's an awful lot of schizophrenia that is the end product of these multiple generations. The best we're going to do in those cases is to relieve the symptoms." He sees little hope "if the goal is to take the person and make him as normal as an ancestor was five or six generations ago. I don't think nature will put up with that."