{"product_id":"stranger-than-fiction-marc-d-feldman-9780880489300","title":"Stranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eStranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding invitation into the world of the human mind that will change our perceptions of mental illness forever. Despite the growing body of scientific discoveries into the nature of the human mind, the stigma attached to mental illness remains deeply entrenched in the general public's consciousness, the product of inaccurate information and centuries of mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a simple conversational style, two distinguished clinicians, Drs. Marc and Jacqueline Feldman, discuss the complexities of mental disorders and their treatment. Using the metaphor of the lie of the mind, a disorder in which a person's thinking becomes unintentionally distorted, the authors approach mental illness from the perspective that these disorders are merely extreme variations of universally shared thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. \u003ci\u003eStranger Than Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e removes the artificial division separating the mentally ill from the general public and demystifies symptoms that often seem bizarre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn this journey through the human psyche, the Feldmans use vivid, enlightening, and often poignant cases from their own professional experience that dramatically illustrate how psychiatrists help patients liberate themselves from the mental conditions that imprison them. The reader is invited into therapy sessions and hospital rooms and receives an insider's view of the difficulties that each therapist confronts when treating disturbed patients. The authors show how clinical decisions often rely more on educated hunches than medical certainties and reveal that the practice of psychiatry is as much an art as it is a science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter finishing this unforgettable book, readers will better understand the true nature of mental illness and witness the joy that even the smallest triumph produces in patients and caregivers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc D. Feldman,Jacqueline M. Feldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0880489308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780880489300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Psychiatric Association Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.35h x 6.29w x 0.96d","brand":"Marc D. Feldman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447808733439,"sku":"9780880489300","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fdf5d88b-33f8-4171-a4fc-f9a9a66e2b3e.jpg?v=1777234957","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stranger-than-fiction-marc-d-feldman-9780880489300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}