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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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Saul was not the first victim of misunderstanding about the nature of psychiatric illness, nor was he the last. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tranquilizing chair, biologically oriented psychiatrist, somatic therapy, catecholamine hypothesis, somatic therapies, manic disorder, dopamine transmission, neuroendocrine abnormalities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Phineas Gage, William Norris, Emil Kraepelin, Roger Wallis, Washington University, American Psychiatric Association, Benjamin Rush, John Hinckley, Malleus Maleficarum, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath New!
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