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1) Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, a comprehensive resource for patients, families, and helping professionals
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A book written by and for patients with schizophrenia, with contributions by psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and psychiatric rehabilitation workers. "Diagnosis: Schizophrenia" is intended to develop and strengthen the understanding of this disease, and to offer tools for patients, their families, and those who provide treatment.
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"This brilliant portait of schizophrenia-the most malignant and least understood mental illness-by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, Chair of Columbia's legendary Psychiatry department, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient portraits and clinical experiences to impart a revolutionary message of hope: that for the first time in human history, schizophrenia can not just be effectively treated, but even prevented. Of...
3) Stella Maris
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Passenger volume 2
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"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
7) Understanding schizophrenia: a practical guide for patients, families, and health care professionals
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This concise and up-to-date guide to schizophrenia focuses on dealing with many aspects of the illness--complying with treatment, managing crises, being a caregiver, communicating with the care team, and coping skills. It also provides practical approaches to common issues such financial support, housing, employment, interacting with the legal system, stress management, socialization, and negative emotions.--From publisher description.
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Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
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