Finding Sanity : John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder (9781489379269)

For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them.

In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind - manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle.

John Cade discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder - lithium. It has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand help lines.

Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.

Product details

• Dimensions 122 x 132mm | 68g
• Publication date 28 Feb 2017
• Publisher Bolinda Publishing
• Imprint Bolinda Audio Books
• Publication City/Country Tullamarine, Australia
• Edition Unabridged
• Edition Statement Unabridged edition
• ISBN10 1489379266
• ISBN13 9781489379269
• Bestsellers rank 1,420,407

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