Finding Sanity

John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder

Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore, Paul English , Ben Johnson

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English

Bolinda Publishing
28 February 2017

Humanities; Psychiatry; Clinical psychology

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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.

By: Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore
Producer: Ben Johnson
Read by: Paul English
Imprint: Bolinda Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 9781489379252
ISBN 10: 1489379258
Publication Date: 28 February 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active