How To Become a Schizophrenic: The Case Against Biological Psychiatry

By John Modrow

Book Overview

Well-researched, yet readable personal account suggesting the etiology of schizophrenia is not disease but circumstance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096326267X
• ISBN13: 9780963262677
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Apollyon Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Ups! Sorry! It IS BACK in print!

Since HOW TO BECOME A SCHIZOPHRENIC was out of print for five years, and since the author told me by mail he was pessimistic about bringing it back to print, I wrote the previous review under the impression that the book was not available in 2003. Sorry!I can only add to my previous review that Alice Miller is the leading exponent in the subject of how abusive parents can drive their children mad. Any critique of biopsychiatry...

A shame this book is not in print!

John Modrow has written the best book describing how parents can drive a son mad. The pseudo-science of biological psychiatry has deceived us. The medical departments in the universities are telling lies to the medical students (everything that has to do with psychopathology). Mental disorders are not a hardware problem, so to speak, and should not be studied by physicians. Only intuitive psychologists like Alice Miller,...

Justifiable Anger

This book is written by a man who had been diagnosed with and treated for schizophrenia. He experienced first hand the maze of interventions, the pressure to conform to treatment (or rather be compliant), and the dehumanizing effects of both the so-called mental illness and the system that addressed its treatment.Modrow takes a detailed look at the evidence for the proposed causes of schizophrenia and delineates the weaknesses...