{"product_id":"schizophrenia-john-c-shershow-9780674791121","title":"Schizophrenia: Science and Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchizophrenia: Science and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the work of many of today's most distinguished authorities in psychiatry. From diverse perspectives, these specialists review what is presently known--and unknown--about schizophrenia. The conceptual underpinnings of the diagnosis of schizophrenic illness, recent elaborations of psychosocial and developmental theories, current genetic and biochemical research, and traditional as well as newer treatment approaches are among the topics discussed in this unusually clear and lively account. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow effective are contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches to schizophrenia? What drug therapies are being used or proposed, and why? What about the treatment milieu and the difficult strategic questions surrounding the recent movement toward the \"deinstitutionalization\" of schizophrenic patients? Ultimately, should schizophrenia be defined as a toxic illness or as a way of life? In attempting to answer these and other questions, Dr. Shershow is joined by contributors Irwin Savodnik, Seymour Kety, Theodore Udz, Gerald Klerman, Ian Creese, Solomon Snyder, Leo Hollister, Jonathan Borus, Daniel Schwartz, and Loren Mosher, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll the issues confronting psychiatry as a self-conscious discipline within contemporary medicine converge on the problem of schizophrenia. The important hope \u003ci\u003eSchizophrenia: Science and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e raises is that a fruitful pluralism among the variety of approaches to schizophrehia, and to psychiatric problems in general, can be sustained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John C. Shershow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674791126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674791121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/1978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.53h x 6.45w x 1.01d","brand":"John C. Shershow","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925568422143,"sku":"9780674791121","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7199c29a-b077-4857-af6b-91d8828fd33a.jpg?v=1681078043","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/schizophrenia-john-c-shershow-9780674791121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}