New edition with new foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.

A brilliant account of the twentieth century's key psychological experiments, by the author of Prozac Diary

The life story of an extraordinary mathematical genius - John Nash - who became schizophrenic, entered remission, and won the Nobel Prize. Nash was only 21 years old and at Princeton University when he invented game theory, the most influential theory of rational human behaviour of our time.

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.

Presents an account of obesity that is suitable for girls and women who have a love/hate relationship with food and their bodies, and those who has knowingly (or unconsciously) used food to try to fill the hole in their heart and soothe the craggy edges of their psyche.