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Surviving
Schizophrenia

A Family Manual

Revised Edition

E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.

An Indispensable Guide to Today's Most
Misunderstood Illness

The first edition of Surviving Schizophrenia helped thousands of patients
and their families and friends.  Upfdated and expanded, Surviving
Schizophrenia describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and
course of the illness and now also includes expanded chapters on living
with schizophrenia from both the patient's and the family's points of
view, more clinical information, illustrations of schizophrenic thought
processes and CT scans, and all the latest infomation on schizophrenia.

"... a comprehensive, realistic and compassionate
approach ... should be of tremendous value to
anyone who must confront these questions."
-Psychology Today

CONTENTS

1  OUT OF THE CLOSET

How Many People Have Schizophrenia
Where are They?  :  What is The Cost of the Disease?
Who Is Responsible for Care?

2  THE INNER WORLD OF MADNESS:
VIEW FROM THE INSIDE

Alterations of the Senses  :  Inabilirty to Interpret and Respond
Delusions and Hallucinations  :  Altered Sence of Self
Changes in Emotions  :  Changes in Movements
Changes in Behavior  :  From Enchanted Loom to Waring Blender

3  THE DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA:
VIEW FROM THE OUTSIDE

Defining Schizophrenia  :  Schizophrenia Subtypes and Paranoid Disorders
Schizoaffective Disorder  :  Onset and Early Symptoms
Male-Female Differences  :  The Ideal Diagnostic Workup
Childhood Schizophrenia  :  Dual Diagnosis

4  WHAT SCHIZOPHRENIA IS NOT

Manic-Depressive Psychosis
Schizoid, Schizotypal, Paranoid and Boarderline Personality Disorders
Brief Reactive Psychosis  :  Street Drug Psychosis
Prescription Drug Psychosis  :  Psychosis Due to Other Diseases
Psychosis Following Trauma  :  Infantile Autism
Culturally Induced or Hysterical Psychosis
Multiple Personality  :  Creativity and Schizophrenia

5   PROGNOSIS AND POSSIBLE COURSES

Predictors of Outcome  :  Possible Courses: Ten Years Later
Possible Courses: Thirty Years Later  :  Suicide and Mortality Rates
Who Are the "Young Adult Chronics"?
Courses of Schizophrenia

6.   THE CAUSES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

What Is Known  :  What Is Speculated: Theories
The Failure to Fund Schizophrenia Research
Discarded Theories  :  The Trial

7   THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

How to Find a Good Doctor  :  Should the Person Be Hospitalized?
Alternatives to Hospitalization  :  A Stitch in Time Gathers No Moss
Commitment Procedures: How to Get Someone Out of Hospital
Commitment Procedures: How to Get someone Out of Hospital
Antipsychotic Drugs  :  Other Drugs for Schizophrenia
New and Experimental Drugs  :  Treatment Plan for Medication
Ineffective Treatments

8   THE ORGANIZATION OF OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC
SERVICES FOR SCHIZOPHRENIC

The Failure of Community Mental Health Centres
The Debacle of Deinstitutionalization
Elements of Good Psychiatric Services
Dane Country: A Model Program  :  The Concept of Asylum

9   WHAT THE PATIENT NEEDS

Food and Housing  :  Income  :  Employment  :  Friendship, Love and Sex
Counseling and Supportive "Psychotherapy"  :  Insight Into Relapses
Medical Care and Safety  :  Community Support Programs
Patient Self-Help Groups  :  The Clubhouse Model

10   WHAT THE FAMILY NEEDS

The Right Attitude  :  Answers to Common Problems
Suportive Siblings  :  Family Support Groups
Good Medical Insurance  :  Gardianship and Plans for the Future
Some Expressed Emotions About Expressed Emotion
How mental Health Professionals Can Help Families

11   LEGAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN
SCHIZOPHRENIA

Involuntry Hospitalization  :  The Insanity Defense
The Right to Treatment  :  The Right to Refuse Treatment
Informed Consent  :  Outpatient Commitment
Failure to Treat and Negligent Release  :  Confidentialty
Research on Persons With Schizophrenia
Research on Animals  :  Genetic Counseling

12   THE HISTORY AND DISTRIBUTIONOF
SCHIZOPHRENIA

Mental Disease in Ancient Times  :  Enter Schizophrenic
Geographical Variations in the United States
Is Schizophrenia Increasing in the United States?
Worldwide Prevalence Rates  :  Western Ireland

13   MOTHERS MARCH FOR MADNESS: HOW THE
SYSTEM CAN BE CHANGED

The Politics of Neglect  :  The Politics of Schizophrenia in Other Coiuntries
"I'm Not Going to Take It anymore"

Appendix A   Ten Best and Ten worst readings on
Schizophrenia

 Appendix B   Resources on Schrizophrenia             

Appendix C   Centres for Schizophrenia Research

Appendix D   Infornation on individual States       

Appendix E   Support and Advocacy Groups in    
Other Countries

Notes  :  Index

 

136x204mm.   460Pgs.   Harper & Rowe Publishers In., USA

 


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