Broken Brain

Name: Broken Brain
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ISBN: 9780060912727

ISBN-10: 0060912723

ISBN-13: 9780060912727

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Authors: Nancy C. Andreasen, Andreasen

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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."

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/29/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Escaping Bedlam: Mental Illness in the Past


The "Biological Revolution" in Psychiatry: How Did It Begin?


Competing Models of Mental Illness: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Biological


What is Mental Illness?: Four Major Syndromes


The Revolution in Neuroscience: What Is the Brain?


The Revolution in Diagnosis: The Search for New Kinds of Illness


The Revolution in Diagnosis: The Search for Laboratory Tests


The Revolution in Treatment: The Search for Somatic Therapies


The Revolution in Research: The Search for Causes


Quo Vadis?: A Better Future


Glossary


Index