Natural Healing for Schizophrenia & Other Common Mental Disorders [Paperback]

Eva Edelman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0965097668 | ISBN-13: 978-0965097666 | Publication Date: June 1996 | Edition: 2nd

Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and Other Common Mental Disorders is a guide to natural approaches to mental and emotional health. It is organized in terms of schizophrenia but includes material on depression, bipolar, autism, and behavior disorders. The book brings together over a half century of medical and psychiatric research with a detailed exploration of nutrients, herbs and biotypes, and the role of allergies, toxins, hormones, physical condition, and brain biochemistry in mental health.

Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and Other Common Mental Disorders serves to inform and support patients and families, as well as physicians and researchers. It is updated and revised every few years, as new medical knowledge becomes available. Includes a glossary, a comprehensive index, current resources, and extensive references.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The most useful volume on nutritional methods for mental illness in 20 years... A valuable resource for researchers, clinicans and families alike." -- William J. Walsh, Ph.D.

A magnificent and needed contribution ot the field of mental health... A superb work... A beacon of hope." -- Ralph Golan, M.D.

"An invaluable resource... This book will enlighten us all in the medical profession, and will give great hope and comfort to patients. I recommend it most enthusiastically." -- Oscar Rogers Kruesi, M.D., F.A.C.P.
--Back cover notes, Natural Healing for Schizophrenia

"It is a daunting task for persons with schizophrenia to find objective information to make informed decisions on therapy. Edelman's excellent book addresses that need: a resource which brings together the rich diversity of orthomolecular treatments. This book is informative and accessible to those with schizophrenia and their families, and is a valuable reference for health care practitioners." -- Greg Shilhab --Nutrition and Mental Health, 1996

"If psychiatry had the good sense to adopt this approach there would be an enormous saving of pain and suffering. -- Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., Father of Orthomolecular Medicine --Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Spring 1997 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Eva Edelman, is a nutritionist, herbalist and health educator, with twenty-five years experience in these fields. Edelman lectures and writes extensively on natural approaches to mental health, and appears on media nationwide. She has just completed a second volume, "Natural Healing for Bipolar Disorder." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: Borage Books; 2nd edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965097668
• ISBN-13: 978-0965097666
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #967,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eva Edelman is the author of two encyclopedic compendiums of nutritional approaches to mental health:
Natural Healing for Bipolar Disorder, first published in 2009, and
Natural Healing for Schizophrenia, in print since 1996 (the latest edition is 2009).

Customer Reviews

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54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on orthomolecular (Nutrition based) medicine, May 13, 2001

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"schneur2" (Vancouver BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natural Healing for Schizophrenia And Other Common Mental Disorders (Paperback)

This book focuses on how to fight mental illness with up to date advances in nutrition. In the medical field this area of treatment is called orthomolecular medicine. While this field emerged out of research of treating schizophrenia with niacin in 1960's, today orthomolecular medicine offers very effective and safe treatments for large range of mental health conditions. The book covers a broad range of treatments from Vitamin, mineral & herbal treatments to issues such as cerebral allergies (food allergies that effect the function of the brain) and sugar imbalances. Out of all the publications on orthomolecular medicine I have read to date, this one stands out as the very best. This publication combines exhausted in-depth research conveyed in an elegant and well-written fashion. The rich presentation of the book arms the layman reader with knowledge that is far beyond the quality of any professional books on the subject. If I had to change anything about this book, it would only be the title; I would call it "natural brain healing ", since I find it very valuable to all mental illness. It is a real shame that mainstream psychiatry ignores these monumental advances in their own area of science. To them I say, wake up, and smell what is right under your nose.

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be a required textbook for ALL health professionals, January 12, 2003

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K. Jensen (Mountain View, AR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Natural Healing for Schizophrenia And Other Common Mental Disorders (Paperback)

I WISH this book were in the hands of not only all mental health professionals but also family doctors, couselors , etc . .

I am deeply distressed that my son has suffered for 3 years now and none of the doctors or therapists along the way ever questioned his basic biochemistry. He has had the typical treatment of simply being put on medication which may cause him further problems the rest of his life. If any of the professionals he has seen to date had read this book and known about the many possibilities of causes and cures of schizophrenia, perhaps he and the family could have been spared the brunt of this devastating illness. We are now working with a ND and seeing some improvement.

There are no simple answers or step by step instructions for curing any one individual, of course. But the information in this book opens the door to so many possibilities -- for the practitioner and lay person alike. This is the most comprehensive book I've read yet on the subject. In addition to a bounty of information, this book gives hope and encouragement that is so very much needed by sufferers and their families.

Buy 2 copies and donate one to the health professional of your choice!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing amount of great information all in one place, November 15, 2007

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M. T. Ireland "Reformed Luddite" (Arizona USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Natural Healing for Schizophrenia And Other Common Mental Disorders (Paperback)

I spent the last twenty years trying to sort out my emotional roller coaster of a life and trying to figure out why I have extreme levels of many heavy metals. This book led me -- finally! -- to the answer. Seems I have a genetic zinc deficiency that causes me to retain heavy metals in my body, and a histamine disorder. And thankfully, there is a simple (not easy, simple) nutritional cure for it all. BUT PLEASE NOTE: The book did not diagnose me but led me to the Pfeiffer Clinic in Illinois. THEY diagnosed me and I am now on their program and heading toward the light at the end of a very long tunnel. If you have or know of anyone with bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, this is a must have book. The wealth of information is unsurpassed. I would know -- my bookshelves and computer are FILLED with other books who give this piece or that piece of the puzzle. This book puts all the possible scenarios in one place AND gives information I'd not seen in other sources on these topics. Nicely organized, well written. I can only thank the author from the bottom of my heart.