The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry

About this book

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. Andreasens 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."