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The BROKEN BRAIN

By Nancy C. Andreasen

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| Paperback | 9780060912727

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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 iContinue

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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  • The New Brain

    In 1895 Freud wrote his last work on the physiology of the nervous system. For the rest of his life he paid little attention to developments in neurobiology, a neglect characteristic of most modern therapists and psychologists. But recent work in the ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0060912723
  • ISBN-13: 9780060912727
  • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
  • Pub date: Nov 09, 1985
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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