Schizophrenia
By: Patrick Young ; introduction by C. Everett Koop.
Series: The Encyclopedia of health.
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780791000526
Subjects: Schizophrenia
Description: Explores this baffling, devastating mental illness and discusses how schizophrenia affects its victims and families, the latest thinking on its causes, the roles of inheritance and environmental factors, which treatments work and which ones do not, and some new evidence that is not hopelessly bleak.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 106-107.

Table of contents: title: A lasting madness; title: The schizophrenic experience; title: One disease or many?; title: Biological aspects; title: Psychological aspects; title: Antipsychotic drugs; title: Supportive therapies; title: The family; title: Prognosis.