Recommended Books and Films
Books:
Coming in March
After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity, by Susan Inman, ISBN 978-0-9810037-8-8 with an introduction by Sen Kirby, Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Currently Available
Schizophrenia: Medicine's Mystery - Society's Shame by Marvin Ross, 978-0-9810037-0-2
Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual For Families, Patients, and Providers 5th Edition by E. Fuller Torrey ISBN-10:0-06-08429-8
Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture by E. Fuller Torrey ISBN-0-06-016812-9
Schizophrenia and Manic-Depression Disorder: The Biological Roots of Mental Illness as Revealed by the Landmark Study of Identical Twins by E. Fuller Torrey et al ISBN 0-465-01746-0
Out of The Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis by E. Fuller Torrey ISBN-o-471-16161-6
Schizophrenia for Dummies by Jerome Levine, MD & Irene Levine, PhD ISBN-978-0-470-25927-6
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker- leading cognitive scientist ISBN 0-393-04535-8
Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill by Rael Jean Isaac & Virginia C Armat ISBN-0-02-915380-8
The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry by Nancy C. Andreason MD PhD ISBN 0-06-015281-8
Schizophrenia: Straight Talk for Families and Friends by Maryellen Walsh ISBN 0-688-04178-7
Molecules of the Mind: The Brave New Science of Molecular Psychiatry ISBN 0-689-11604-7
Madness: An Indictment of the Mental Health Care in Ontario by John Marshall based on a public inquiry commissioned by the OPSEU ISBN0-919275-42-7
Recommended Reading - The Law
Canadian Mental Health Law and Policy 2nd Edition by John E. Gray, Margaret Shone & Peter L Liddle ISBN 978-0-433-44473
Recommended Reading -The Laboratory (Research)
Tomorrow 's Cures Today: How to Reform the Health Research System by Donald R. Forsdyke ISBN 90-5702-603-1
Films
Cutting for Stone - a feature film on developing schizophrenia written and directed by a psychiatrist
My Name is Walter James Cross - A one hour docudrama
The Soloist
When Medicine Got it Wrong
People Say I'm Crazy
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