SCHIZOPHRENIA. A PANDEMIC OF MADNESS

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

CONTENTS

From the Author

PART I. MADNESS BEFORE SCIENCE

Chapter 1. The Hole in the Skull: Neolithic Surgeons

Chapter 2. Cast Out the Demon, Kill the Body: Exorcism, Bedlam, and the Invisible Religious Psychiatry

Chapter 3. The Wandering Womb: Woman as a Diagnosis

Intermezzo: The Formula of Madness

PART II. Madness with a Degree

Chapter 4. Kraepelin and Bleuler: How the Word Was Born

Chapter 5. Healing with Fire: From Malaria to Sulfazin

Chapter 6. Diabetes as a Treatment for Madness: Manfred Sakel’s Comas

Chapter 7. The Nobel Prize for the Ice Pick: Lobotomy and Its Price

Chapter 8. A Dark Page in Soviet Psychiatry

Chapter 9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Two Sides of the Same Story

Interlude One. A Voice from the Ward

PART III. ERRING BY THE RULES

Chapter 10. Freud and the Forces of the Psyche: Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis

Chapter 11. Jung and the Collective Unconscious: When Psychiatry Met Myth

Chapter 12. The Phenomenological School: How to Learn to Be a Patient

Chapter 13. Biological Theories: In Search of the Key to the Brain

Chapter 14. Bateson and the Double Bind: When the Family Becomes a Battleground

Chapter 15. Antipsychiatry: Laing, Basaglia, and the Limits of the Movement

Chapter 16. The Biopsychosocial Model: An Attempt to Piece Together the Mosaic

Chapter 17. From Hippocrates to Madrid: The Birth of Professional Ethics

Interlude Two. The Mother’s Voice

PART IV. THE PANDEMIC TODAY: THE PSYCHE MARKET

Chapter 18. Why It Works: The Anatomy of a Miracle

Chapter 19. The New Shamans: Bert Hellinger and Family Constellations

Chapter 20. ThetaHealing: The Revelation of Vianna Stibal

Chapter 21. The Past-Life Market: Regressology and “Proprietary Methods”

Chapter 22. Hubbard and Dianetics: Merchants of Manufactured Happiness

Chapter 23. Inside the Profession Itself: When There Is No Quality Control

Interlude Three. The Patient’s Voice

PART V. A PANDEMIC WITHOUT BORDERS

Chapter 24. Beyond the Clinic Walls: A Boundless Formula

Chapter 25. The Pandemic in Social Media: When the Screen Became a Pulpit

Chapter 26. Legal Asymmetry: A Pandemic of Tacit Consent

PART VI. THE RETURN

Chapter 27. The Story of One Recovery

Chapter 28. Conclusion: Who Is Actually Insane?

Appendix: How to Recognize a True Specialist

Literature and Sources

About the Author and Contact Information