The BROKEN BRAIN
The Broken Brain by Nancy C. Andreasen, published by Harper Collins on October 29, 1985, is a comprehensive guide that explores the scientific understanding of schizophrenia, severe depression, and other significant mental disorders. This edition spans 278 pages and is presented in English, offering readers insights into new medications that have positively impacted the lives of many individuals facing these challenges.
In this book, Dr. Andreasen addresses the stigma surrounding mental illness, advocating for a compassionate perspective that recognizes the humanity of those affected. The text delves into topics such as health and fitness, psychology, and psychopathology, providing a thorough examination of mental health issues. Readers will find a blend of scientific information and a call for societal change, emphasizing the importance of sensitivity and support for individuals with mental disorders.
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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.”
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