Victims of Cruelty or Schizophrenia

Victims of Cruelty: Somatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Author: Marianna Eckberg

In Victims of Cruelty, Maryanna Eckberg incorporates work with Vietnam veterans (the first to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder) and the Chowchilla kidnapping victims. This personal testimony of how people can heal after trauma is also a professional book describing the effects of personal and political repression and how we can liberate our bodies and minds from terror.

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Schizophrenia

Author: Christopher Donald Frith

The schizophrenic patient presented to the public in sensational press reports and lurid films bears little resemblance to reality of the illness. This book describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments that have been applied. It also summarizes the most up-to-date knowledge available about the biological bases of this disorder. Finally it attempts to give some idea of what it is like to have schizophrenia and what this disorder tells us about the relationship between mind and brain.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
1	The experience of schizophrenia	1
2	The concept of schizophrenia	24
3	Intellectual functioning in schizophrenia	47
4	Schizophrenia and drugs	72
5	Biological factors	92
6	Environmental factors	108
7	Understanding the symptoms of schizophrenia	123
8	The importance of schizophrenia	145
	References	171
	Further reading	185
	Index	189