When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia

At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that people diagnosed with schizophrenia can be helped by much more humane treatments, and that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk to them regularly and for a sustained period, soon after their first breakdown.

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When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia
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