Young, Patrick, 1937- Schizophrenia / [electronic resource] / Patrick Young ; introduction by C. Everett Koop.. — New York : : Chelsea House Publishers,, c1988.. — 114 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm. - The Encyclopedia of health. Psychological disorders and their treatment.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 106-107.
A lasting madness -- The schizophrenic experience -- One disease or many? -- Biological aspects -- Psychological aspects -- Antipsychotic drugs -- Supportive therapies -- The family -- Prognosis.
Анотація: Explores this baffling, devastating mental illness and discusses how schizophrenia affects its victims and families, the latest thinking on its causes, the roles of inheritance and environmental factors, which treatments work and which ones do not, and some new evidence that is not hopelessly bleak.