| Summary: | "This book provides a record of the mounting importance of chemistry and chemicals in the world-wide battle against mental illness. Intensified research is under way on a hundred fronts, aimed at getting more and better information in response to the provocative question, "To what extent does chemistry within the human body underlie specific mental disorders?" The idea that our thinking and behavior, our personality and intellect are just as dependent on chemical reactions as are the movements of a muscle is causing great pain in many quarters. All human beings depend for their activities--both mental and physical--on complex chemical reactions. Without the unceasing chemistry of daily life, a human being becomes as mute and as immobile as an automobile with a dead battery or an empty gasoline tank. If the perfect synchronization of the chemical reactions that proceed within the human brain with lightning-like speed is blocked or detoured, almost instantly the human machine begins to sputter and stumble, waver and deviate from the accepted norm. This book has been written to make better known to the general public the hopeful prospects that chemistry and a host of new man-made chemicals are bringing to millions"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).
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