**1. Introduction**

The future of psychiatry is neurodevelopmental. One of the tragedies of the twentieth century, more particularly in child and adolescent psychiatry, is the tradition of blaming families and particularly mothers for psychiatric problems. Tragically, we had "schizophrenogenic mothers" as "causes" of schizophrenia and "refrigerated mothers" as "causes" of autism. Even more recently, tragically, John Bowlby [1], in discussing "causal factors" in relation to autism, mentioned "inappropriate mothering". This is another mother-blaming idea. The current understanding of these disorders, intellectual disability, ADHD, autism, Asperger's syndrome, tics, etc., is a neurodevelopmental disorder with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder also being neurodevelopmental, and all have significant neurobiological inputs. Some personality disorders should also be considered as being on the neurodevelopmental spectrum. The neurodevelopmental trajectory will include the addition of more neurodevelopmental disorders, e.g., bipolar, schizophrenia and depression as the person gets older.
