Healing Bipolar with Vitamins - The Schizophrenias Ours to Conquer (Vit B3, Niacin, Inositol, Vit C, Zinc, B6)

383 Pages·1988·3.949 MB·English

by  CARL C PFEIFFER , Abram Hoffer

THE SCHIZOPHRENIAS:
OURS TO CONQUER
by
Carl C. Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D.,
Richard Mailloux, B.S.
and Linda Forsythe, B.A.
Princeton Brain Bio Center
Skillman, N.J.
THE SCHIZOPHRENIAS: OURS TO CONQUER
Bio-Communications Press / January 1988
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to thank Sarah Rodgers, Phyllis
Loften and Marie Arcaro for excellent typing and secretar
ial assistance in the preparation of this book. They never
exclaimed, "What—another revision?"
The authors also wish to thank Keith Jordan for The
Easy Alpha Test.
This book is dedicated to the many patients who had
sufficient faith in a new approach to the schizophrenias to
tolerate the several ups and downs in their mental health as
we slowly determined biochemical causes. We also
appreciate the devotion of our underpaid professional staff
who are motivated to continue because the patients' health
and even their personal health is improved by the nutri
tional approach.
Special thanks must be given to Professor Roger
Williams and Donald R. Davis, Ph.D., who allowed
Lianne Audette and Norma Rahn to make the colored
charts of their cartwheel graphs depicting nutrients in food
and diets (see back cover).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface by A. Hoffer ix
Introduction/Characteristics of the
Schizophrenias
1. Introduction: Testing the Spoor of
Schizophrenics 3
2. Scope of the Schizophrenias 15
3. Psychometric Tests for the Diagnosis of
Schizophrenia 19
4. Models of Madness, Models of Medicine 29
5. The Bewares of Schizophrenics 43
6. Danger Signs of the Schizophrenias 47
7. Is the Schizophrenic Dangerous? 49
8. The Very Real Risk of Suicide 53
9. The Types of Schizophrenias 57
10. The Borderline Patient 65
11. Paranoia: The Delusion of Persecution
with Grandiosity and Naivete 69
12. Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia 87
13. Evidence for the Theory of Overstimulation
in Schizophrenias 99
14. Everyday Drugs and the Schizophrenic 103
Hope in the Schizophrenias
1. Schizophrenics Have Made and Can Make
Notable Achievements 107
2. Requisite Faiths for Recovery 113
Major Biochemical Types of the
Schizophrenias
1. Behavioral vs. Biological Diagnosis of
the Schizophrenias 119
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2. Importance of Various Biochemical
Imbalances 125
3. Heavy Metal Poisoning—Histapenia—
Hypercupremic Patients 131
4. Pyroluria—Zinc and B-6 Deficiencies 139
5. Porphyria Occasionally Masquerades as
Schizophrenia 147
6. Do Some Schizophrenics Have a
Characteristic Odor? 153
7. Histadelia—High Blood Histamine 155
8. Cerebral Allergy 161
9. Wheat Gluten Intolerance 169
10. Nutritional Hypoglycemia Can Give
Schizophrenic Symptoms 175
11. Postpartum or Puerperal Psychosis 185
12. Schizophrenia or Psychomotor Epilepsy 189
13. Prolactin Hormone and the Schizophrenias .. 193
14. Homocysteinuria Masquerades as
Schizophrenia 197
Other Biochemical Theories
1. The Prostaglandin Theory Correlates with
Histamine Theory 201
2. Drug Induced Psychosis 205
3. B-12/Folic Acid Psychosis 211
4. Schizophrenia and Water Imbalance:
Polydipsia, Polyuria and Psychosis 215
5. Natural Opiates, Depression and
Compulsive Running 225
6. Other Peptides and the Schizophrenias 235
7. Monoamine Oxidase and Paranoia 237
8. Many Schizophrenics Deserve a
Therapeutic Trial of Thyroid 241
9. Serine Abnormalities and the Hypermethy-
lation and Hyperdopaminergic Theories 247
10. Calcium, Magnesium and Mental Illness .... 251
Immunogenetics of the Schizophrenias
1. Unfortunately Schizophrenias are Inherited .. 259
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2. The Inherited Schizophrenias 263
3. Some of the Schizophrenias are Infectious ... 267
4. Immunogenetic Research in Schizophrenia .. 273
5. Immune Globulins and the Schizophrenias .. 277
6. Could Some Schizophrenias be
Autoimmune Diseases? 279
Non-Biochemical Theories
1. Body Type and the Schizophrenias 285
2. Sex and the Schizophrenic 287
3. Many Schizophrenias Affect the Limbic
System 289
4. Structural and Functional Differences in the
Brains of Some Schizophrenics 291
5. Psychological and Emotional Stress Triggers
Some Schizophrenias 293
6. Environmental Stress Can Trigger
Schizophrenia 295
7. The Known Biochemistry of Stress 297
8. Summary: Non-Biochemical Theories 299
Treatment
1. Self-Evaluation: Psychoanalysts Look
into their Complacent Mirrors 303
2. Types of Psychotherapy 305
3. Talking Therapy in Schizophrenia 307
4. When to Hospitalize 311
5. The Economics of Schizophrenia 319
5a. The History of Electroconvulsive
Therapy and Its Place Among Other
Physical Therapies in the Treatment
of the Schizophrenias 323
6. Specific Drugs Are Available for Some of
the Schizophrenias 329
7. Antianxiety Drugs in Schizophrenia 339
8. The Usefulness of Low Dose Lithium 341
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Conclusion/Philosophy
1. The Hypnagogic State: A Natural
Phenomenon 347
2. How about Me and Thee, and Our
Schizophrenias? 349
References and Books
for Further Reading 357
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