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Written by HealthyPlace.com Staff Writer
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Mar 06, 2007 |
A + A - RESET
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MUST HAVES for People with Schizophrenia
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Understanding Schizophrenia: a Guide to the New Research on Causes and Treatment
by David Richard Keefe, Philip D. Harvey Goldstein
buy the book $19
Reader Comment:
This text is provides the reader with an excellent layman's description of the illness and the potential and methods of treatment.
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I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help!
by Xavier Amador, Anna-Lica Johanson
buy the book $18
Reader Comment:
This book should have been given to us the moment our son was diagnosed. It is compassionate, instructive, understandable and extremely practical.
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When Someone You Know Has a Mental Illness: A Handbook for Family, Friends and Caregivers
by Rebecca Woolis, Agnes Hatfied
buy the book $11
Reader Comment:
This book contains what so many mental health books lack: advice.
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Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers
by E. Fuller Torrey
buy the book $11
Reader Comment:
At last, I finally understood things from the point of view of my brothers. Soon I had everyone in my family reading this book and truly it opened many eyes.
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Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations
by Ivan Leudar, Philip Thomas
buy the book $32
Reader Comment:
In this challenging book, psychologist, Ivan Leudar traces voice-hearing and its interpretations through 2,800 years of history through six cases of historical and contemporary voice-hearers.
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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by A. Lori, Bennett Schiller
buy the book $12
Reader Comment:
Lori Schiller does an excellent job of describing the world of the schizophrenic mental patient and mental hospitals in much descriptive detail as she experienced it during the 1980s.
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Diagnosis: Schizophrenia
by Rachel Miller, Susan Elizabeth Mason
buy the book $13
Reader Comment:
By reading this wonderfully written book, the reader can enter into this world and develop an appreciation not only for the complexity of this illness, but it also provides direction and inspires hope.
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
buy the book $12
Reader Comment:
This great biography describes the very bizarre genius from his days in a small West Virginia town, through his undergrad days in a very sooty, unhealthy Pittsburgh ,just after WW2, all the way thru his very humorous Nobel Speech.("Now, maybe I'll be able to get a credit card!").
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Getting Your Life Back Together When You Have Schizophrenia
by Roberta Temes
buy the book $15
Reader Comment:
An excellent easy to read book that helps those who have this devestating illness, and their family members.
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Last Updated( Feb 13, 2009 )
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reviewed by: Harry Croft, MD
Psychiatrist, HealthyPlace.com Medical Director
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