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 enlarge | Author: E. Fuller Torrey
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 38032
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Pages: 544
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.5
ASIN: B000G740QM
Publication Date: May 8, 2001
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 Survive Schizophrenia June 4, 2008
Jeffrey L. Erchul (Tennessee)
an excellant book for recognizing and understanding the disease. A must read for parents, family and friends.
 Helpful Information May 12, 2008
N Laverne (Ohio, USA)
I found this helpful for understanding the basic information about schizophrenia and it had some useful chapters on signs to look for and treatments. It may be a little outdated with some of the new drugs that are coming out now, but overall its a good reference book to have.
Excellent Resource April 24, 2008
David Ross (Rochester, NY USA)
This excellently writen and organized resource for families and consumers themselves is now in its 5th edition since 1983. To have access to the most recent information it is preferable to buy the 5th edition. The 5th edition was published in 2006 vs the 4th edition published in 2001. The "bargain edition" offered by Amazon is also the 4th edition. Of course the 4th edition is available used at a good price and is more easily found in your local library. br / br /While Torrey is opinionated, this book is objective, balanced and wise and based on the best interpretation of current scientific research. One of the difficulties that he discusses wonderfully in the book is distinguishing between the symptoms of schizophrenia itself and medication side effects. He is no shill for the pharmaceutical industry either in that he is appropriately sceptical of the supposed general superiority of the newer and much more expensive "atypical" antipyschotic drugs for example. At the same time he recognizes that they are useful options if the first generation drugs don't work or have unacceptable side effects.
5th Edition is now available April 8, 2008
Theresa Reed (Auburn, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have nothing but respect for the work of Torrey, which is almost THE definitive text when I've talked to others. That being said I would suggest that the viewer look for the 5th edition Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients, and Providers, that was the book that I meant to buy. The 5th edition is current up to 2006, organized slightly differently, and is only a little more expensive. Still, if this copy is all you can afford and you need a thorough layman's workup on schizophrenia without being bothered that it is only current up through 2001, this is the book for you.
Definitive February 3, 2008
JAG 1 (New England)
As a student of Psychology, and as someone who spent a few years in mental health counselling (mostly schizophrenic adults), and as someone who has also had personal experience with mental illness (depression/anger and anxiety); I would have to say that Dr. Torrey's book on schizophrenia is definitive. br / br /It is indeed amazing how so many of our great psychologists including Carl Jung, Erich Fromm, Erik Erikson,Harry Stack Sullivan, Bruno Bettleheim, R.D. Laing, and many of our Behavioral psychologists so completely misunderstood the condition of schizophrenia other serious mental illnesses. Though the virtual founder of insight counselling or "talk Therapy", Sigmund Freud, made clear his apprehensiveness on using psychoanalysis to treat schizoprenia, subsequent psychoanalysts and other brands of psychologists were eager to apply talk therapy, dream analysis, insight therapy, mother-bashing, behavior modification and other such methods to the treatment of what we now know is a chemical, neurological and probably genetic disease. br / br /Dr. Torrey (who has a sister who is schizophrenic) provides a humane, scientific, accecable account of this illness, and how it has been completely misunderstood by the public and zealous professionals alike. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a love-oned who is schizophrenic or is interested in working with that segment of our mental health population. It is also good for anyone who has more than a passing interest in psychology.
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