Schizophrenia:

~ is NOT caused by childhood trauma

~ is NOT caused by domineering mothers

and/or passive fathers

~ is NOT caused by any guilts, acts, or

failures of the victim

~ is N(YF responsive to treatment by psycho-

therapy

Schizophrenia,

~ IS a real disease (or group of diseases)

~ DOES have concrete and specific symp-

toms different from other mental illnesses

~ IS a result of flawed brain biochemistry

~ MAY be treatable by specific psychotropic

drugs

~ OFTENHAS a genetic component

~ IS SOMETIMES CURABLE

Schizophrenia strikes one out of every

hundred Americans in their lifetime. More

than two million people in this country have

it, and this year (and every year that follows)

another hundred thousand will be diagnosed

with it for the first time. Further, its victims

spread beyond even these staggering num-

bers, for its ripple effect among families,

friends, employers, and fellow workers and

its costs are enormous. Living or working

with a schizophrenic can be a frightening

experience

Surviving Schizophrenia is the first book

for the lay reader on this most widespread of

all mental illnesses. In this humane, lucid,

and practical book, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey de-

scribes the nature of the disease, what symp-

toms do and do not characterize it, how it is

diagnosed, what the prognosis is tbr dif-

ferent ages of onset and frequeney of recur-

rence, when hospitalization is indicated,