JEFFREY A. LIEBERMAN

Qu’est-ce que la maladie mentale ?Ce livre captivant apporte une perspective historique et des réponses à cette question, l’une des plus importantes de notre époque.La psychiatrie a parcouru un long

The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps evera total game-changer. Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindA comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly readable portrait of schizophreniaits history, its various manifestations, and how todays treatments have promising and often lifesaving potential.This incredibly captivating (Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies) portrait of schizophrenia, the most malignant and mysterious mental illness, by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient profiles and clinical experiences to impart a revolutionary message of hope. For the first time in history, we can effectively treat schizophrenia, limiting its disabling effectsand were on the verge of being able to prevent the diseases onset entirely.Drawing on his four-decade career, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman expertly illuminates the past, present, and future of this historically dreaded and devastating illness. Interweaving history, science, and policy with personal anecdotes and clinical cases, Malady of the Mind is a rich, illuminating experience written in accessible, fluid prose. From Dr. Liebermans vantage point at the pinnacle of academic psychiatry, informed by extensive research experience and clinical care of thousands of patients, he explains how the complexity of the brain, the checkered history of psychiatric medicine, and centuries of stigma combined with misguided legislation and health care policies have impeded scientific advances and clinical progress. Despite this, there is reason for optimism: by offering evidence-based treatments that combine medication with psychosocial services and principles learned from the recovery movement, doctors can now effectively treat schizophrenia by diagnosing patients at a very early stage, achieving a mutually respectful therapeutic alliance, and preventing relapse, thus limiting the progression of the illness. Even more promising, decades of work on diagnosis, detection, and early intervention have pushed scientific progress to the cusp of preventionmeaning that in the near future, doctors may be able to prevent the onset of this disorder.A must-read for those interested in medical history, psychology, and those whose lives have been affected by schizophrenia, this penetrating, important (Andrew Solomon, author of Noonday Demon) work offers a comprehensive scientific portrait, crucial insights, sound advice for families and friends, and most importantly, hope for those sufferers now and future generations.

Un recorrido por la historia y la evolución de la psiquiatría de la mano de dos expertos en la materia.La psiquiatría ha hecho un largo camino desde la época en que los «lunáticos» eran encadenados y

A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatrys origins, demise and redemption. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining lunatics in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for the black sheep of medicine has been anything but smooth. In SHRINKS, Dr Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of shrinks to its late blooming maturity since the Second World War as a science-driven profession that saves lives. With fascinating case studies and portraits of the luminaries of the field, from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel, SHRINKS is a gripping and illuminating read. It is also an urgent call-to-arms to dispel the stigma surrounding mental illness and to start treating it as a disease rather than a state of mind.

Esta obra revisa el estado actual de los conocimientos acerca de sus causas, su naturaleza y su tratamiento. Expertos de Norteamérica y Europa abordan la com-plejidad de la esquizofrenia en un exhaustivo analisis que conduce desde una vision historica general y la epidemiologia de la esquizofrenia hasta la consideracion de los trastornos comorbidos. Los autores exponen los factores geneticos y ambientales que predisponen a con-traer esquizofrenia, describen las principales teorias acerca de esta enfermedad, investigan los mecanismos biologicos que configuran distintos aspectos de sus caracteristicas clinicas, asi como toda la gama disponible de intervenciones clinicas para el tratamiento de los pacientes en las distintas fases, desde el prodromo a la cronicidad. Esta obra resulta una guia para la practica clinica con oportunas y explicitas reco-mendaciones para abordar el deterioro cognoscitivo como objetivo potencial del tratamiento, estrategias para mejorar el funcionamiento social o laboral, una vision general de los farmacos antipsicoticos y una revision de las intervenciones psicoso-ciales de eficacia comprobada.Lieberman, Jeffrey A. Stroup, T. Scott Perkins, Diana O.