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Books on
Schizophrenia
MUST HAVES for People with
Schizophrenia and other Thought
Disorders
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Understanding Schizophrenia: a Guide to the New
Research on Causes and Treatment by David Richard Keefe, Philip D.
Harvey Goldstein
hardcover $19
Reader Comment:
This text is provides the reader with an excellent layman's
description of the illness and the potential and methods of
treatment.
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I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help! by
Xavier Amador, Anna-Lica Johanson
paperback $18 Reader Comment:
This book should have been given to us the moment our son was
diagnosed. It is compassionate, instructive, understandable and
extremely practical.
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When Someone You Know Has a Mental Illness:
A Handbook for Family, Friends and Caregivers by
Rebecca Woolis, Agnes Hatfied
paperback
$11 Reader Comment:
This book contains what so many mental health books lack: advice.
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Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for
Families, Consumers, and Providers by E. Fuller Torrey
paperback $11
Reader Comment:
At last, I finally understood things from the point of
view of my brothers. Soon I had everyone in my family reading this
book and truly it opened many eyes.
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Voices of Reason , Voices of Insanity:
Studies of Verbal Hallucinations by
Ivan Leudar, Philip Thomas
paperback
$32 Reader Comment:
In this challenging book, psychologist, Ivan Leudar traces
voice-hearing and its interpretations through 2,800 years of history
through six cases of historical and contemporary voice-hearers.
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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the
Torment of Madness by A. Lori, Bennett Schiller
paperback
$12 Reader Comment:
Lori Schiller does an excellent job of describing the world of the
schizophrenic mental patient and mental hospitals in much
descriptive detail as she experienced it during the 1980s.
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Diagnosis: Schizophrenia by
Rachel Miller, Susan Elizabeth Mason
paperback
$13 Reader Comment:
By reading this wonderfully written book, the reader can enter into
this world and develop an appreciation not only for the complexity
of this illness, but it also provides direction and inspires hope.
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical
Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by
Sylvia Nasar
paperback
$12 Reader Comment:
This great biography describes the very bizarre genius from his days
in a small West Virginia town, through his undergrad days in a very
sooty, unhealthy Pittsburgh ,just after WW2, all the way thru his
very humorous Nobel Speech.("Now, maybe I'll be able to get a credit
card!").
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