Steven Lesk

Author Bio:A practicing psychiatrist for thirty-seven years, past Director of Inpatient Psychiatric Services and chairman at the Brooklyn VA Hospital, and assistant professor at the hospital’s affiliated medical school, Lesk has a life of experience observing and treating the mentally ill. His commitment to patients and the subject extends beyond complacency with the existing knowledge of schizophrenia; with well-supported investigation, he pioneered new, better knowledge, the result of which is this book. While audiences may be eager for books about schizophrenia, as proven by Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road, no work exists as medically accurate and scientifically comprehensive as Lesk’s