Silvano Arieti

Among the disciplines which are growing at the most accelerated pace is psychiatry, and understandably so. Intimately involved with psychology, general biology, neurology, sociology, cultural changes of any kind, it is constantly enriched by these fields and many others, which all converge toward a greater knowledge of man in health and mental illness. This Book is edited by Javad Nurbakhsh, Thomas Szasz, Hamideh Jahangiri, Haraton Davidian, Levon Davidian, Silvano Arieti, Eugene B. Brody, Morton F. Reiser, Daniel X. Freedman, Jarl E. Dyrud, David A. Hamburg, Keith Brodie, Ian Alger, Heinz L. Ansbacher, E. James Anthony, Kenneth Appel, Jack Bemporad, Jules R. Bemporad, Therese Benedek, Viola W. Bernard, Donald A. Bloch, Henry Brill, Robert N. Butler, Nancy Datan, Katrina De Hirsch, Marvin G. Drellich, Abraham Edel, Leon Edel, Henri F. Ellenberger, James L. Foy, Eugene A. Friedmann, Richard A. Gardner, Kurt Goldstein, Ralph R. Greenson, Harry Guntrip, Joseph L. Henderson, John W. Higgins, Irene M. Josselyn, Bernard Kaplan, Kenneth Keniston, Nolan D. C. Lewis, Theodore Lidz, Bruce Mazlish, Rev. James R. MacColl, R. E. Money-Kyrle, George Mora, Wendell S. Muncie, Simon H. Nagler, Harold I

In this award-winning book, Interpretation of Schizophrenia, Silvano Arieti presents the history of the medical research on schizophrenia, the summary of the ideas of the major scholars who devoted their careers to the illness and finally the conclusions drawn by the author himself.

This work on depression offers information and conclusions drawn from case studies. The authors challenge biological reductionism in the mental health industry, but do not deny the contribution of biochemistry and drugs to depression. They see biology and psychology as finally inseparable.