Overview

Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia is back, now in its sixth edition. Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals. In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia and also explores living with it from both the patient's and the family's point of view. This new, completely updated sixth edition includes the latest research findings on what causes the disease, as well as information about the newest drugs for treatment, and answers the questions most often asked by families, consumers, and providers.

Full Product Details

9781665229715

Table of Contents

Reviews

A comprehensive, realistic, and compassionate approach...Should be of tremendous value to anyone who must confront these questions. -- Psychology Times Brilliant...There is no one writing on psychology today whom I would rather read. -- Los Angeles Times

"""A comprehensive, realistic, and compassionate approach...Should be of tremendous value to anyone who must confront these questions."" -- ""Psychology Times"" ""Brilliant...There is no one writing on psychology today whom I would rather read."" -- ""Los Angeles Times"""

Author Information

E. Fuller Torrey, MD, is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is the executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, and a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Matthew Josdal is a voice-over and theater artist originally from a small town in southwest Saskatchewan. He obtained his BFA degree in drama from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. He has narrated audiobooks in genres ranging from historical nonfiction to contemporary fantasy, along with most things in between. In addition to a fifteen-plus year career in acting for both stage and microphone, he completed all requirements for his honors degree in psychology.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available