100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia: Painful Minds

by Lynn E. DeLisi

Approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime. This chronic, severe mental illness can be devastating for patients and their family and friends. Whether you're a newly diagnosed schizophrenia patient, or a friend or relative of someone suffering from this mental illness, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, sources of support, and much more. Written by an expert on the subject, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of schizophrenia.

Genres: Mental Health

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2006

Reviews

[Victor Schrager · Rating 4 out of 5]

In my opinion I think this book should receive 4 stars. It's very informative and has a lot of very useful information for the general public. This book isn't for beginners though, this book has highly technical and confusing concepts that few "unless" those who are studying psychology, general psychiatry or have a family or friends suffering the condition would/could understand. I suggest a person reading a medical textbook of this kind should consider reading this two times to understand. This book goes from the basics to the abstract concepts very quickly. However, as a book overall it's well written and informative. It's worth reading if you can set aside the subject matter as well as, the stigma which Schizophrenia gets a lot of. 4/5 stars for being fascinating, scientific. It would've gotten all 5 if it had been more user friendly but still good regardless of that.

[Amina Elidrissy · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent book on schizophrenia, covers almost any question one could ask about this mental disorder, however it doesn't gives us too many data about women schizophrenia
the book tries to shed light on the stigma surrounding schizophrenia, this one that causes tremendous pain to the patients, especially in north Africa and middle east where individuals with schizophrenia are neglected by their families, isolated and called "crazy and insane', i've known families who go to believe that their soul's son is inhabited by ghosts or cursed by the devil, mainly when the patient said so under the effect of his audio/or and visual hallucinations, it's a vicious cycle until he ends up by developing a violent attitude and then neglected and called insane.
this stigma needs effort from psychiatrists and psychologists to spread awareness about this specific mental disorder, that it is only part of mental illness that can be recovered and not insanity.

[Steven Perry · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good source of information with very little fluff. The author chose some very odd quotes to begin her chapters. What do Lewis Carrol, Shakespeare, and Susan B. Anthony have to do with schizophrenia? We may never know.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well this book contradicts itself. I learned that schizophrenia has not been proven to be a genetically inherited disorder, yet the book sticks to the notion that it is even after stating this. I also learned that the schizophrenic's brain can sometimes be different or possibly the same as a normal person. In summary, it sounds like no one knows a whole lot about schizophrenia. I was hoping this book would explain how blackouts and tactile hallucinations work. But it was very basic and was geared more towards someone that knows a schizophrenic.

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book covers a gamut of questions one might have with SZ, it goes from what is it to genetics to meds to legal to a variety of q and of 100 selected questions. Not a guide on how to deal with the condition but more of a factual this is schizophrenia and a few things to conder or someone who has it.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Author has organized the book concisely with well thought-out questions and current medical responses from the psychiatric community. Very helpful when assisting family members and friends with issues surrounding the disease.

[Bear · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not terribly informative.