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Schizophrenia. A pandemic of madness Kenan Ragimov · 2026
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Schizophrenia. A pandemic of madness

The Fight for the Mind Through the History of a Single Illness

Kenan RagimovFirst edition — 2026

Contents

36 chapters
  1. 01From the Author
  2. Part I. Madness before science
  3. 02Chapter 1. The Hole in the Skull: Neolithic Surgeons
  4. 03Chapter 2. Cast Out the Demon, Kill the Body: Exorcism, Bedlam, and the Invisible Religious Psychiatry
  5. 04Chapter 3. The Wandering Womb: Woman as a Diagnosis
  6. 05Intermezzo: The Formula of Madness
  7. PART II. Madness with a Degree
  8. 06Chapter 4. Kraepelin and Bleuler: How the Word Was Born
  9. 07Chapter 5. Healing with Fire: From Malaria to Sulfazin
  10. 08Chapter 6. Diabetes as a Treatment for Madness: Manfred Sakel’s Comas
  11. 09Chapter 7. The Nobel Prize for the Ice Pick: Lobotomy and Its Price
  12. 10Chapter 8. A Dark Page in Soviet Psychiatry
  13. 11Chapter 9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Two Sides of the Same Story
  14. 12Interlude One. A Voice from the Ward
  15. Part III. Erring by the rules
  16. 13Chapter 10. Freud and the Forces of the Psyche: Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis
  17. 14Chapter 11. Jung and the Collective Unconscious: When Psychiatry Met Myth
  18. 15Chapter 12. The Phenomenological School: How to Learn to Be a Patient
  19. 16Chapter 13. Biological Theories: In Search of the Key to the Brain
  20. 17Chapter 14. Bateson and the Double Bind: When the Family Becomes a Battleground
  21. 18Chapter 15. Antipsychiatry: Laing, Basaglia, and the Limits of the Movement
  22. 19Chapter 16. The Biopsychosocial Model: An Attempt to Piece Together the Mosaic
  23. 20Chapter 17. From Hippocrates to Madrid: The Birth of Professional Ethics
  24. 21Interlude Two. The Mother’s Voice
  25. Part IV. The pandemic today: the psyche market
  26. 22Chapter 18. Why It Works: The Anatomy of a Miracle
  27. 23Chapter 19. The New Shamans: Bert Hellinger and Family Constellations
  28. 24Chapter 20. ThetaHealing: The Revelation of Vianna Stibal
  29. 25Chapter 21. The Past-Life Market: Regressology and “Proprietary Methods”
  30. 26Chapter 22. Hubbard and Dianetics: Merchants of Manufactured Happiness
  31. 27Chapter 23. Inside the Profession Itself: When There Is No Quality Control
  32. 28Interlude Three. The Patient’s Voice
  33. Part V. A pandemic without borders
  34. 29Chapter 24. Beyond the Clinic Walls: A Boundless Formula
  35. 30Chapter 25. The Pandemic in Social Media: When the Screen Became a Pulpit
  36. 31Chapter 26. Legal Asymmetry: A Pandemic of Tacit Consent
  37. Part VI. The return
  38. 32Chapter 27. The Story of One Recovery
  39. 33Chapter 28. Conclusion: Who Is Actually Insane?
  40. 34Appendix: How to Recognize a True Specialist
  41. Literature and Sources
  42. About the Author and Contact Information

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