TY - BOOK ID - 118385172 TI - Between Reason and Illusion : Demystifying Schizophrenia AU - Assis, Jorge Cândido de AU - Villares, Cecília Cruz AU - Bressan, Rodrigo Affonseca PY - 2023 SN - 3031245563 3031245555 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Mental health. KW - Psychiatry. KW - Occupational therapy. KW - Mental Health. KW - Occupational Therapy. KW - Emotional health KW - Mental hygiene KW - Mental physiology and hygiene KW - Happiness KW - Health KW - Public health KW - Mental illness KW - Psychiatry KW - Psychology KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Activity programs, Therapeutic effect of KW - Occupation therapy KW - Work, Therapeutic effect of KW - Medical rehabilitation KW - Physical therapy KW - Psychotherapy KW - Therapeutics, Physiological KW - Medicine and psychology KW - Mental health KW - Schizophrenia. KW - Dementia praecox KW - Schizophrenic disorders KW - Psychoses KW - Schizotypal personality disorder KW - Esquizofrènia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118385172 AB - This book realistically describes the experiences of people living with schizophrenia and their families, from the detection of the first symptoms until the development of treatments and strategies to cope with this unique human condition. Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis in which subjective aspects, such as hallucinatory and delusional phenomena, tend to distort the understanding of reality. Because psychotic states fluctuate in intensity over time, those affected literally live between reason and illusion. Between Reason and Illusion: Demystifying Schizophrenia is an invitation to understand what it means to develop schizophrenia and to live with it throughout one's life. And this is an invitation to all those who are in some way affected by this condition: those who live with it, family members, friends, health professionals, and everyone who want to have a non-stigmatized view of mental disorders and people who live with them. “Faced with psychosis, the person affected by the disease and the family are lost and go looking for alternative or spiritual help, which usually delays the beginning of treatment. Jorge, Cecília and Rodrigo had the courage to face a difficult theme and the happy idea of writing a book of an educational nature about schizophrenia. The book's originality lies in the fact that it was written taking into account the experience of the person with the disease and his or her family members in the face of this something new that has occurred in their lives”. - Dr. Itiro Shirakawa, Professor Emeritus of the Paulista Medical School of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP/EPM), Brazil. This book is a translation of an original Portuguese edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. ER -