Schizophrenia: The Divided Mind
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A practical guide to relatives and interested laymen, which would give the facts about schizophrenia in plain language unmixed with romantic theorising, and offer advice about management, has long been needed. This booklet comes closer to success than anything yet printed. The first section, in which the condition is described, warts and all, but in terms which evoke sympathy and understanding in the reader, is particularly good. It was an excellent idea to discuss the perceptual distortions so common in early schizophrenia and to suggest that anyone who experienced and endeavoured to ex-
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