Eisenberg, Leon2019-01-041998-12Eisenberg, Leon. 1998. “Nature, Niche, and Nurture.” Academic Psychiatry 22 (4): 213–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03340021.1042-96701545-7230http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37964244Nature and nurture stand in reciprocity, not opposition. Offspring inherit, along with their parents' genes, their parents, their peers, and the places they inhabit. The ontogenetic niche is a crucial link between parents and offspring, an envelope of life chances. Development is at one and the same time a social and a psychological and a biological process. If we psychiatrists allow ourselves to become mere pill pushers-or psychotherapists who fit all patients into one Procrustean bed-each as the exclusive road to mental health, we will have abandoned the duty we owe our patients and our integrity as physicians.en-USJournal Article2019-01-0410.1007/bf03340021