Personal Accounts: Mental Disorders: Pathways to Hope . . . ?

Jay NeugeborenAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 64, Number 10

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.6401001

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The recent discovery of a genetic risk factor shared by five psychiatric disorders reminds the author of a visit he and his parents made 50 years ago to his teenage brother Robert, who was a patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. “Someday,” his mother assured him, “they’ll discover it’s all chemical!” But news of marvelous discoveries and treatments that are on the horizon did not spare Robert from a life spent shuttling in and out of psychiatric hospitals, leading the author to ask whether such discoveries add a cruel burden to lives “already grim in the extreme.”

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Cover: Walter Martin, by Dickson Reeder, 1956. Oil on canvas. Collection of the San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio, Texas.

Psychiatric Services
Volume 64 • Number 10 • October 2013
Pages: 950 - 951
PubMed: 24081401

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Published online: 1 October 2013

Published in print: October 2013

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Jay Neugeboren

Mr. Neugeboren (e-mail: [email protected]) is the author of 21 books, including two prize-winning books about mental illness, Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival, and Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living With Mental Illness. He serves on many boards, including the New York City Metro chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Pathways to Housing, and the Columbia University Center for the Prevention of Homelessness. Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H., is editor of this column.

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Personal Accounts: Mental Disorders: Pathways to Hope . . . ?

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