* Clear, easy-to-read review of schizophrenia for both those suffering from the disease and for their family membersAbout one person in a hundred will be diagnosed with schizophrenia at some time in their life. The condition can be severe and debilitating with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and the loss of concentration, motivation, and social skills. But schizophrenia is not a degenerative or life-threatening condition and in recent years improved knowledge and understanding, psychological treatments, and more tolerable medication have greatly increased people s ability to manage ...
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Moving On: A Guide to Recovery for People with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia (Society of Analytic Psychology Monograph Series)

By: Roselyn Hewett

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Karnac Books: April 2007

Seller ID: 108145

ISBN: 1855754428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Precarious Haven

By: Juniper Wiley

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc): January 1996

Seller ID: 40777

ISBN: 0813327458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Schizophrenia: Aspects of Care

By: N/A

Price: $39.98

Publisher: Wiley: September 2003

Seller ID: 108583

ISBN: 186156273X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Schizophrenia: Origins, Processes, Treatment, and Outcome

By: N/A

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: November 1993

Seller ID: 35107

ISBN: 0195069226

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

This volume presents and integrates the latest advances in schizophrenia research and theory. Numerous leaders in the field offer new and sometimes opposing insights into six topics central to the study of schizophrenia: neuroanatomical conceptions, genetic research, information processing and attention, clinical symptoms and the course of the disorder, psychopharmacologic and family interventions, and social rehabilitation. Conceptual approaches that focus on the patient's information input processes, organizational structure of social self and personal experience, and family setting are disc...
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Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition: A Family Manual

By: E. Fuller Torrey

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: December 2013

Seller ID: 261007

ISBN: 0062268856

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia is back, now in its sixth edition.Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals. In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia and also explores living with it from both the patient's and the family's point of view. This new, completely updated sixth...
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The Center Cannot Hold

By: Elyn Saks

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Hyperion: January 2007

Seller ID: 248838

ISBN: 073949774X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia: Helping Your Loved One Get the Most Out of Life

By: Kim T. Mueser PhD, Susan Gingerich MSW

Price: $17.95

Publisher: The Guilford Press: May 2006

Seller ID: 3410

ISBN: 1593851804

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

By: Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett

Price: $13.99

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: January 1996

Seller ID: 164198

ISBN: 0446671339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived. Now in this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattere...
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Towards A Comprehensive Therapy for Schizophrenia

By: Switzerland) International Symposium on Schizophrenia 1993 (Bern

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber Publishing: January 1997

Seller ID: 34761

ISBN: 088937175X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The various treatment methods available for use in schizophrenia are still often not applied in an integrated, comprehensive way. Based on the current concept of schizophrenia as a systemic dysfunction, the world's leading experts look in this book at how a comprehensive and planned treatment approach for schizophrenia can be developed.
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