It is the inspiring, ultimately triumphant story of her no-holds-barred war against the darkness of their lives, and how she searched for, and found, the individual keys to free them."

    Szasz asserts that such policies scapegoat illegal drugs and the persons who use and sell them, and discourage the breaking of drug habits by pathologizing drug use as "addiction." Reaers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.

    The book not only lays out the framework for developing better living skills, it is also essential for taking part in Recovery International meetings, as it fully describes such self-help tools as:Humor is our best friend, temper is our worst enemy.Have the courage to make a mistake. People do things that annoy us, not necessarily to annoy us. Tempers are frequently uncontrolled, but not uncontrollable. Every act of self-control leads to a sense of self-respect.Temper is an intellectual blindness to the other side of the story.

    This pioneering work of Jungian psychiatry reframes acute psychotic episodes in the context of visionary experience of schizophrenic patients and describes innovative methods of handling them.