The New Psychiatry: How Genes and Neurotransmitters Shape Your Mind, Personality, and Mental Health

by Larry J. Siever

Book Overview

What happens when the brain doesn1t function properly? What are the causes of psychological disorder? How do we rediscover the self after it has become clouded by illness? This book provides a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028615441
• ISBN13: 9780028615448
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

authoritative and compassionate overview of mental illness

This is a book for anyone who has ever been depressed and wondered about taking medication, for anyone who has ever worried about his own mental health or had concerns about friends and family. Dr. Siever gives us a comprehensive introduction to all the major psychiatric diseases and disorders, illustrated with numerous case studies--of the narcissistic or histrionic personality, of dpression, of obsessive compulsive disorder. His stories are illuminating and compassionate. The field of psychiatry is undergoing a "biological revolution." To discover the causes of mental illness, we can now look beyond inadequate parenting, sibling rivalry and the oedipus complex to the less well-trodden realm of neurotransmitters and receptors, of genetics and biology. In technical areas Siever offers helpful analogies and, for the uninitiated, is an authoritative and patient guide