Title |
Conquering schizophrenia : a father, his son, and a medical breakthrough / Peter Wyden. |
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Publication Info. |
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1998. |
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Enfield, Main Library - Biographies
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B WYDEN |
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Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction
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616.8982 WYD |
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Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department
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616.898 WYDEN |
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Description |
viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and index. |
Contents |
The onset -- Diagnosis: school phobia -- Meltdown -- What really ails Jeff Wyden? -- The godfather: Emil Kraepelin -- The Menniger wars -- The revolutionaries -- The restored -- "An arrogant view of their mission? -- The shattered -- Freud is dead, Freud lives! -- Antiheroes -- Out of it -- "So many wonderful, wonderful people" -- Clozapine I: the twenty-five-year marathon -- Clozapine II: death and resurrection -- The symptoms were "not severe enough? " -- Is there no home for Jeff? -- Rename it "Nijinsky's disease" -- Shock -- Three breakthroughs -- In the pipeline -- "That could have killed the drug right there" -- Last-minute hurdles -- Jeff now -- On the road to wellness. |
Subject |
Wyden, Jeffrey -- Mental health.
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Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
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Schizophrenia -- Treatment.
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Olanzapine.
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Schizophrenia -- Personal Narratives.
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Schizophrenia -- therapy.
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ISBN |
0679446710 alkaline paper |
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