Rachel Pruchno
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English
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"What was the likelihood my adopted daughter would have my father's hazel eyes and my mother's mental illness?"
In this fiercely candid memoir, Dr. Pruchno, a scientist widely acclaimed for her research on mental illness and families, shows how mental illness threatened to destroy her own family. Not once, but twice.
As a child, she didn't understand her mother's episodes of crippling sadness or whirlwind activity. As a mother, she feared her daughter,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This book provides concrete, evidence-based strategies for helping people with serious mental illness. It explains how to find competent health care providers, identify treatment regimens that can quell the symptoms of mental illness, overcome obstacles to treatment, and make decisions"--