Masks of Madness: Orthomolecular Treatment of Mental Illness

Dr. Hoffer presents the experiences of patients and health care professionals who have gone beyond conventional psychiatry to find mental health in nutritional therapy and orthomolecular medicine. Renowned actor Margot Kidder, who has suffered from manic depression, finally recovered using the orthomolecular treatment regimen developed by Dr. Abram Hoffer, the founding father of this form of treatment. She and other patients discuss their descents into many forms of mental illness, their difficulty in finding successful treatment from conventional psychiatry, and their recovery using an optimum diet, vitamin and mineral supplements and a minimum of pharmacological intervention. Readers learn the fundamentals of this approach to mental illness, and about the resistance of the conventional medical establishment to nutritional therapy for the prevention and treatment of mental illness inspiring new hope for mental health patients, their families and their friends. Margot Kidder starred as Lois Lane in the Superman films and is the official spokesperson of the Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation, the sponsor of the Masks of Madness Project.Hoffer, Abram is the author of 'Masks of Madness: Orthomolecular Treatment of Mental Illness', published 2001 under ISBN 9781550822601 and ISBN 1550822608.