The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry

Type

Book

Authors

Nancy C. Andreasen

ISBN 10

0060912723

ISBN 13

9780060912727

Tags

Mental Health, Mental Illness, Pathologies, General

Description

The Broken Brain provides a complete and remarkably readable guide to the new scientific understanding of schizophrenia, severe depression, and other major mental disorders and to the new medications that have already returned hundreds of thousands to more normal lives. Dr. Andreasen's book is also a social manifesto that seeks to remove the shame, guilt, and punishment that are still attached to the mentally ill and, instead, to regard them "as human beings who deserve as much sensitivity and love as people who suffer from cancer, muscular dystrophy, or heart disease." - from Amzon

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