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Kenan Ragimov
Schizophrenia. A Pandemic of Madness
2025 · 224 pp.
Price of the printed book30 AZN
Contents
- From the Author
- 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
- Chapter 4. Kraepelin and Bleuler: How the Word Was Born
- Chapter 5. Healing with Fire: From Malaria to Sulfozin
- Chapter 6. Insulin 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
- 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
- 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
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