Although incorporating various patients, all the cases are based on fact, so that there is a real educational opportunity while patient confidentiality is protected.
Neppe's consultations in the book, he has taken a fresh approach, writing in a style that he describes as being "a play within prose." It is fundamentally a dialogue between the generic "Doctor" and his patients or medical students using the entirely new literary genre of "sciction"-medical science expressed through fictitious composite case histories. There are many patients suffering out there and I want to help them." Cry the Beloved Mind is, indeed, a compassionate, respectful, self-help book which allows patients, their families and the general reader to understand what their doctors are doing when using powerful mind-modifying medications such as Prozac, BuSpar and Tegretol.
I wrote it with a far deeper purpose in mind. My book is far more than just a wonderful way for the general reader to be educated in areas such as depression, seizures, psychosis, brain medications and social medical issues. But, he adds: "Cry the Beloved Mind encompasses even more, as I share several personal new discoveries with my readers as well as targeting hope for recovery. Sacks's account on how patients were re-awakened after many years by a special drug. Neppe says that the first chapter of his book (entitled Awakenings Revisited) may well be compared to the movie Awakenings. Similarly, Cry the Beloved Mind aims at educating patients, their families, the public, students and academia about the brain." Dr. Sacks's books and TV series," he says, "are about the brain and are meant for the general reader. Vernon Neppe MD, PhD, in his own right an internationally respected neuropsychiatrist, expert on brain medications, and author of Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy and The Psychology of Dj Vu, agrees that there are similarities: "Dr. Sacks has achieved an international reputation with his books, movies and TV programs in the area of unusual, abnormal brain functioning. Neppe's latest book "Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope." High praise, indeed, given that Dr. "The Second Coming of Oliver Sacks." This is one reader's portrayal of Dr.
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