Orthomolecular Psychiatry: Heredity & Envr

by David R. Hawkins and Linus Pauling

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716708981
• ISBN13: 9780716708988
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 697 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Vital Nutritional Medical Textbook

This is one of the most important books on psychiatry ever written. It is not speculation that high doses of vitamins can effectively treat mental illness; it is a fact. In this authoritative volume, you have an entire textbook devoted to the subject. One might bear in mind that the principal editor of this book is no other than Linus Pauling, the only person in history to have won two unshared Nobel prizes. 36 contributing authors in thirty articles provide abundant scientific basis for aggressive use of orthomolecular (megavitamin) therapy, especially in psychosis. Though often technical, this book is a powerful response to those who insist, still, that RDA or RDI quantities of vitamins are quite adequate for all. Complete, from case histories to biochemical mechanisms, Orthomolecular Psychiatry, along with its many hundreds of included references, firmly establish very-high-dose vitamin therapy as the treatment of choice for schizophrenia, dementia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related illnesses. Specific therapeutic guidelines are provided, with emphasis on the most important outcome: results. Most highly recommended.

a wonderful and important book on the subject

this big book,(physicaly and contently),is the early work and case histories that was documented in one extraordinary book that includs the work of: linus pauling,david hawkins, abram hoffer, and many other orthomolecular psiciatrists that gave in this book the true sight of how orthomolecular medicine really work in a very severe cases of psyciatry patients.a lot of case histories are well expressed and it is in the very simple easy to understand. this is not only for a professionals only, but also and a must in everyone 's book-case that have or know someone that need this treatment. the book also show how and when the conventional drugs are making good beneficial resoults, and when they are not,and when and how to used them in a way that will lead to the minimum use of them compare to the alternative orthomolecular psyciatry approach