Based on exhaustive research culled from old patient medical records, historical accounts, and government documents, this haunting book raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, what it means to be "insane." and what we value most about the human mind.
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Based on exhaustive research culled from old patient medical records, historical accounts, and government documents, this haunting book raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, what it means to be "insane." and what we value most about the human mind.
"When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic - a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic boo…
"When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic - a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic boo…
"Psychoses provides a unique perspective on the challenges associated with understanding and treating psychoses, bringing together insights and developments from medicine and psychology to give a full and balanced overview of the subject." "Johan Cullberg draws on his extensive …
"Psychoses provides a unique perspective on the challenges associated with understanding and treating psychoses, bringing together insights and developments from medicine and psychology to give a full and balanced overview of the subject." "Johan Cullberg draws on his extensive …
Sanity, madness, and the family
by Laing, R. D., (Ronald David), Esterson, A., (Aaron)
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Contains accounts of eleven families of female patients studied at two mental hospitals.
Sanity, madness, and the family
by Laing, R. D., (Ronald David), Esterson, A., (Aaron)
fromPelican Books
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When first published, this book made a very significant contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental illness. This new edition provides an incisive critical analysis of the debates over the last decade.
Schizophrenia: a new guide for clinicians
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Schizophrenia: a new guide for clinicians
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This work provides information on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenia. It highlights modern diagnostic tools and current therapeutic advances for the prevention of hallucinations, thought disorganization, and negative symptoms.
Schizophrenia: a new guide for clinicians
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New imaging techniques to investigate the brain and new classifications of symptoms have renewed interest in the etiologies and pathologies of this common, but highly complex psychiatric disorder. In 14 papers on assessment and diagnosis, treatment, and special management issues…
Insanity - in clinical practice as in the popular imagination - is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommon insigh…
Insanity{u2014}in clinical practice as in the popular imagination{u2014}is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommo…