A review by lifeinpoetry
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry by Nathan Filer

5.0

For a book by a non-schizophrenic on the topic I was happy to find this engaging, schizophrenics felt like people and not like problems to be medicated or shut away. What I'm still thinking about is the history of anti-psychotics, their initial use as anesthetics, then as tranquilizers, then rebranded. Then the author floated the idea that they could be the thing causing brain shrinkage in schizophrenics which I found alarming, but it just feels like you either live with symptoms or. . .