Schizophrenia Library

• Art Therapy: Beneficial Schizophrenia Treatment?
  Recent findings question the popular use of art therapy for people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia affects up to one in a hundred people ...
• Resources for Extraordinary Healing: Schizophrenia, Bipolar and Other Serious Mental Illnesses
  Though uneven, Resources for Extraordinary Healing: Schizophrenia, Bipolar and Other Serious Mental Illnesses by Emma Bragdon nevertheless offers some fascinating insights into mental wellness from a perspective not normally considered by the Western psychological community: ...
• Grief and Mourning in Schizophrenia: A Safety Plan
  The diagnosis of schizophrenia has countless implications for an individual’s life. Being ...
• Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift In Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis
  If madness, or psychosis, is just a result of a physical defect in the brain, then it makes sense to devote little effort to understanding the experiences of mad people, and to focus instead on ...
• January First: A Child’s Descent into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her
  While riding in a car with her father, young Jani Schofield tells her dad, “I don’t want to go to the hospital, but I think I need to.” She is five years old. “Most three-year-olds are ...
• Playing the Genetic Lottery
  In her first novel, Playing the Genetic Lottery, Terri Morgan tells the story of Caitlin Kane, a young woman whose parents and sibling suffer from schizophrenia. The novel is written as a sort of faux-memoir ...
• Cannabis May Cause Schizophrenia-Like Brain Changes
  Researchers looking at the effects of cannabis on the brain have made some interesting discoveries. The effect ...
• What Everyone Needs to Know About Postpartum Psychosis
  Even though postpartum psychosis is rare -- affecting about 1 to 2 ...
• When Truth Lies: A Journey with Schizophrenia
  The year is 1969, and Kevin has just graduated from high school. His classmates look forward to dates, parties, and college. Not Kevin. He sees Satan bugs crawl in and out of his body. He ...
• Increasing Treatment Adherence in Schizophrenia
  "Adherence is one of the most important issues in illness management,” according to Dawn I. Velligan, ...
• Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
  Ben Behind His Voices is an inspirational story about a family’s experience with schizophrenia. The focus of Randye Kaye’s book is on her son Ben, who struggled for many years with mental health and substance ...
• Premature Death Rates Rising in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Patients
  People with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a substantially raised risk of premature death, research warns, and the risk ...
• What’s My Zip Code?
  When I first saw this book "What's My Zip Code?" by David Stringer, it was in download format and I wondered what exactly it would be about because it seemed like an odd title to ...
• The Memory Palace: A Memoir
  We children of schizophrenics are the great secret-keepers, the ones who don’t want you to think anything is wrong (p. 5). Author Mira Bartok has encapsulated in this statement her life as the daughter of mentally ...
• After Schizophrenia
  I was not sure what to expect when I first opened Margaret Hawkins’ After Schizophrenia. Memoirs about people suffering from mental illness are quite common these days and I was interested to see if the ...
• What a Life Can Be
  In “What a Life Can Be: One Therapist’s Take on Schizo-Affective Disorder,” Carolyn Dobbins, PhD offers an insightful look into the evolution of a successful mental health professional with a challenging diagnosis:  schizo-affective disorder.  In an ...
• Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery
  From the very first paragraph of Whitney Robinson's first book, Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery, her way with words is not only apparent, but glaringly so.  Reading further, ...
• Silent Voices
  The book Silent Voices is an intriguing story about how a family dealt with mental illness and how a lack of support from professionals caused a family to endure tragedy that changed their lives forever. ...
• How a Bully Is Made
  The short- and long-term harm done to bullying victims has received much attention lately. The complex web of factors which go into ...
• Schizophrenia and Genetics: Research Update
  Fortunately, we’ve come a long way since the theory that less-than-affectionate mothers cause schizophrenia. Today, it’s widely accepted that a complex interplay ...
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry
  The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by UK-based journalist Jon Ronson (famous for the book-turned-movie The Men Who Stare at Goats) starts out with a mystery. Someone has sent a bunch of ...
• Madness Made Plain: Henry’s Demons
  Henry’s Demons is what madness is all about. Patrick Cockburn, war correspondent for The Independent in London, writes this book about another war -- the war against schizophrenia within his own son, Henry. Moreover, Henry ...
• New Pilot Program Tries to Help the Mentally Ill Quit Smoking
  I was shocked when I read this statistic in Melinda’s Beck top-notch column, “Health Journal,” in the Wall Street Journal: Nearly half of all the ...
• Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
  Before beginning a review of Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness, this reviewer feels that it is necessary to disclose that it is the very first graphic novel she has ever read.  Keeping ...
• My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery from Mental Illness
  Schizophrenia affects one percent of the world population.  It is indiscriminate of race, gender, status, and wealth.  Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not multiple personalities -- that’s Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder).  ...