This is the most useful volume on nutritional methods for mental illness written in the past 20 years. I believe that it will be a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, and families alike. It is required reading for our research and medical staff.
Natural Healing for Schizophrenia, a "compendium of nutritional methods," is an invaluable resource for every family afflicted by not only schizophrenia, but any mental illness. It represents four decades of pioneering research investigating this biological-biochemical illness. This book enlightens us all in the medical profession, and will give great hope and comfort to patients. I recommend it most enthusiastically.
Eva Edelman has compiled a magnificent and needed contribution to the field of mental health. She has created both a scholarly text and practical guidebook detailing the biochemical/nutritional aspects of both the causative factors of and treatments for schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.
Well-organized, clearly written, and comprehensive in scope, it will without doubt change the lives of the sufferers and families with mental illness. It should be required reading for psychiatrists, psychologists and other health professionals as well as for those planning medical school curriculum and national health policy.
Natural Healing for Schizophrenia is a superb work, a beacon of hope.
As a practitioner of orthomolecular medicine and psychiatry for more than three decades I applaud the efforts of Eva Edelman.
Natural Healing for Schizophrenia could qualify as a textbook which should be required reading for every mental health professional.
At the same time, this superb compendium contains a wide range of information which would benefit any non-professional interested in the biochemistry of behavior or just maintaining health.
I think that everyone who is dealing with mental illness of any type, either in themselves or in a loved one, should get a copy of this book and use it as a guide for exploring alternative approaches to evaluation and healing.
Terms like histapenia, histadelia, cerebral allergies, and pyroluria are visually and verbally outlined so well! Kudos for a much needed, immensely readable guide to nutritional and biochemical treatment of schizophrenia.
Ms. Edelman has provided a superb, detailed account of orthomolecular treatment, with enough detail so that any physician with only the material here presented could begin to use the treatment.
This book provides an excellent outline of what could become a lecture course running perhaps several semesters, to teach physicians all about the best treatment of schizophrenia which is available today.
Natural Healing for Schizophrenia & Other Common Mental Disorders is a state-of-the-art resource detailing natural treatments for schizophrenia and other mental and emotional disorders.
Natural treatments have been developed over the past half century by pioneering physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and biochemists; and represent an unprecedented breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia. These treatments have been found to lead to a 75 to 85% rate of recovery or great improvement, which is in stark contrast to expectations with mainstream methods. Natural treatments also do not produce the brain suppression and damage all too common in the conventional approach but, rather, tend to enhance the health of both brain and body.
Natural Healing for Schizophrenia should be of prime interest to patients and their families, as well as physicians and other health professionals searching for more effective treatments. Individuals interested in brain biochemistry and the influence of nutrients, toxins, and illness on brain functioning will also find this book valuable.
2012. Revised. Third edition, fourth printing. Foreword by Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD.
Contains glossary, resources, recommended reading, and extensive references.
Illustrated. 8.5 x 11. 256 pages. $29.95. ISBN: 0965097676. LCCCN: 00-093454.