This work is a personal testimony from Kay Redfield Jamison: the revelation of her struggle with manic depression since adolescence, and how it has shaped her life. The book follows her through college, a love affair, her battle with the illness, bouts of madness, violence and attempted suicide.

Is the first volume of the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Together with the second volume, A Thousand Plateaus, it is widely regarded as the single most brilliant work of Continental philosophy of the last forty years.

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II.

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, this title intends to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. It offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.

Here, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. He traces over three centuries of cures for madness, questioning our obligations to the mad.

Looks at the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA. The book details the success of talking therapy , and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled.