With the popular success of the film A Beautiful Mind, based on the life of Nobel Laureate John Nash and starring Russell Crowe, schizophrenia has become much better known and schizophrenics are no longer stigmatized. The chance of recovering from schizophrenia, which afflicts one percent of our population, has not improved, however. This book by Dr Abram Hoffer, the founding father of the complementary and alternative medical movement, amalgamates his best-selling How to Live with Schizophrenia and Common Questions about Schizophrenia, while offering new research and treatment information. Dr Hoffer's highly successful nutritional treatment of schizophrenia involves an allergy-free diet enhanced with vitamin supplements (vitamin B-3, primarily), assisted temporarily by drugs when symptoms are severe. This book not only answers the questions patients, their family and friends may have about the symptoms and causes of this disease, but also offers new hope for recovery from schizophrenia. Written in plain language for common people, Healing Schizophrenia features case studies of many patients who have been healed by Dr Hoffer's treatment. Book jacket.

Dr Abram Hoffer is the author of many highly-influential and best-selling health books. Born in the town of Hoffer, Saskatchewan in 1917, he still practices medicine in Victoria, British Columbia