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,
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