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The author describes his son's twenty-five-year battle with schizophrenia and its impact on their family, the usually ineffective treatments, and the biomedical therapies that have revolutionized psychiatry
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Peter Wyden was formerly a writer for Newsweek and executive editor of Ladies' Home Journal. For a decade he was the president of Peter Wyden Books, a publishing house specializing in works about psychology and medicine. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Intimate Enemy (with Dr. George R. Bach), Day One: Before Hiroshima and After, and Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. Born in Berlin, he lives with his wife in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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f a father guiding his son from despair to hope is a chilling, inspiring journey through the mysterious tunnel of schizophrenia--a world once closed and forbidding, now suddenly radiating excitement as thousands of patients are, in effect, being reborn.<br><br>Jeff Wyden, a bright, happy boy in childhood, began to withdraw in adolescence, and by the age of twenty-one was severely psychotic, disconnected from reality. He was schizophrenic. In the ensuing twenty-five years, Peter Wyden accompanied his son into a hell without certainties as they searched for a solution.<br><br>We see them pass through the hands of more than fifty psychiatrists and countless hospitals, clinics, and halfway houses. Doctors and health-care providers help and sometimes hinder both father and son in their odyssey through hypnosis, electroshock, dozens of drug therapies, and disabling "side effects." <br><br>Throughout their ordeal, the father's management of his son's managers is his daily task, se
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Conquering Schizophrenia : A Father, His Son, and a Medical Breakthrough
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