This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry

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For best results, you may want to choose a print book rather than reading on a screen, since the light emitted by your device could keep you awake and lead to other unwanted health outcomes. Faber & Faber was founded nearly a century ago, in 1929. Read about our long publishing history in a decade-by-decade account. While some schizophrenia sufferers do resort to violence, there are many more who wouldn’t dream of hurting another soul. Likewise, the severity of the illness – and the extent to which sufferers are able to resume normal functioning – is dependent upon a whole range of factors that cannot easily be pigeonholed.

Richness and detail and phenomenological openness have disappeared, and one finds instead meager notes that give no real picture of the patient or his world but reduce him and his disease to a list of “major” and “minor” diagnostic criteria. Filer tells us that it is derived from the Greek words skhizein – which means “to split” – and phr?n, which translates as “mind”. Naturally, this can lead to the conclusion that someone diagnosed with schizophrenia has a split personality – at least one of which, we might assume, could potentially be unpredictable, if not dangerous.

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the tone was unnecessarily informal. The jokes about Ant and Dec just seemed pointless and made it seem like the author wasn’t taking his job seriously. that psychological categorization of mental illness is useless at best and downright harmful, misleading, and pejorative at worst. Psychiatric diagnoses, in this view, are in the minds of observers and are not valid summaries of characteristics displayed by the observed.