Malady of the mind schizophrenia and the path to prevention
"This brilliant portrait of schizophrenia--the most malignant and least understood mental illness--by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, Chair of Columbia's legendary Psychiatry department, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient portraits and clinical experiences to...
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New York :
Scribner,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- From the ancient world to Father Amorth
- Madness in the Middle Ages
- Through a glass, darkly
- Medical specialization
- The Freudians
- Desperate measures
- Laborit's drug
- The anti-psychiatry movement
- The cost of good intentions
- The taxonomist of mental illness
- The enchanted loom
- Am I my genes?
- Psychosis, psychedelics, and the serotonin theory
- Dopamine : the wind in the psychotic fire
- Glutamate and GABA : the accelerator and the brake
- Peeling the onion
- Diagnosing schizophrenia
- The importance of early intervention
- How we (should) treat schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia and society : do the right thing
- Owning recovery.
