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This book is designed to provide information on schizophrenia for patients, families and clinicians. It contains information on the basic signs, symptoms and treatment options that are available. It is written by a psychiatrist with two decades of experience. He is board certified in general psychiatry and three other specialities of forensic psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and addiction psychiatry and has provided treatment for patients of schizophrenia in many different settings.
Here is a preview of what you'll learn...Definition, characteristics, and subtypes
Causes, risks, and complications
Schizophrenic episodes: reality vs. Fiction
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Therapy, medication, and treatment
Coping and support mechanisms
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And much more!
This book depicts the nature, causes, side effects, treatment, and course of schizophrenia and furthermore investigates living with it from both the patient's and the family's perspective. This new, totally refreshed seventh version remembers the most recent exploration discoveries for what causes the sickness, just as data about the freshest medications for therapy, and answers the inquiries frequently posed by families, customers, and suppliers.
