| Schizophrenia:~ is NOT caused by childhood trauma~ is NOT caused by domineering mothers and/or passive fathers~ is NOT caused by any guilts, acts, or failures of the victim~ is N(YF responsive to treatment by psycho- therapySchizophrenia,~ IS a real disease (or group of diseases)~ DOES have concrete and specific symp- toms different from other mental illnesses~ IS a result of flawed brain biochemistry~ MAY be treatable by specific psychotropic drugs~ OFTENHAS a genetic component~ IS SOMETIMES CURABLE Schizophrenia strikes one out of everyhundred Americans in their lifetime. Morethan two million people in this country haveit, and this year (and every year that follows)another hundred thousand will be diagnosedwith it for the first time. Further, its victimsspread beyond even these staggering num-bers, for its ripple effect among families,friends, employers, and fellow workers andits costs are enormous. Living or workingwith a schizophrenic can be a frighteningexperience Surviving Schizophrenia is the first bookfor the lay reader on this most widespread ofall mental illnesses. In this humane, lucid,and practical book, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey de-scribes the nature of the disease, what symp-toms do and do not characterize it, how it isdiagnosed, what the prognosis is tbr dif-ferent ages of onset and frequeney of recur-rence, when hospitalization is indicated, |
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