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Buy Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry by Carl C. Pfeiffer available and for sale on Brightsurf
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by Carl C. Pfeiffer
| | List Price: | $12.95 | | Price: | $10.36 | | You Save: | $2.59 (20%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 42035 | | Studio: | Healing Arts Press | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 128 | | Publication Date: | April 01, 1988 | | Publisher: | Healing Arts Press |
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Believing that drugs and psychoanalysis were not always the best course of treatment for a variety of mental illnesses, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer began an extensive program of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, and in 1973 opened the Brain Bio Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Here, with a team of scientists, he found that many psychological problems can be traced to biochemical imbalances in the body. With these patients, he achieved unprecedented success in treating a wide range of mental problems by adjusting diet and providing specific nutritional supplements for those conditions where deficiences exist. This book documents his approach. Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed as schizophrenic; many more suffer from depression, anxiety, and phobias. Dr. Pfeiffer's methods of treatment presented in Nutrition and Mental Illness are a valuable adjunct to traditional therapies, and can bring hope of real wellness to many of those who suffer. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 12 reviews)
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Helpful but not total 
Carl Pfeiffer's work was done quite a few decades ago as he passed away. Following up on his work and furthering his work is Abraham Hoffer and Patrick Holford. This foundational work on orthomolecular was first coined by 2 time Nobel Prize winner Linnus Pauling. Pfeiffer's work was foundational to the advance of orthomolecular treatment for mental illness and schiophrenia. International Foundation of Schiophrenia furthers his work. I would definitely recommend Carl Pfeiffers work with Hoffers and Holford's. The Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Chicago also furthers his work. His clinic in NJ closed down some years ago. But his partner continues in Chicago.
February 26, 2008 | |
Help for schizophrenics
This book is a great help for Scizophrenics from a nutrtional point of view and balancing your levels.
February 23, 2008 | |
Sound Case Studies Back up the Claims
Dr. Carl Pfeiffer is deceased (probably why the clinic is no more) but his research lives on. I believe a colleague took over and started a new center with a different name. Dr. Pfeiffer called the condition pyroluria, however, I believe his successors call it zinc and magnesium deficiency. A neighbor sought treatment for her daughter from the Pfeiffer Treatment Center, (when it existed) which at that time also offered temporary satellite facilities so people didn't need to travel to NJ. Her daughter improved so drastically it was amazing. Diagnosed with mental illness, as long as she stayed on the supplements, she was functional. Pfeiffer took hair samples from all the serial killers on death row and found one unifying trait - these vitamin deficiencies. I first saw Dr. Pfeiffer on the Phil Donohoe years ago. I wrote down his name and the term for the condition and then in college did a research paper on the Biochemistry of Crime, using Dr Pfeiffer's research as part of my assertion. All I can say, is don't knock it unless you've tried it. I have seen living proof that his research premise is sound.
After all, we already know that the food we eat does not actually provide the nutrients that the FDA claims they do since 40 years ago an orange offered more vitamin C than it has in it today. The beef today is more marbled with fat than 40 years ago since cattle used to be free range and so had more muscle and less fat in their tissue. And how does every living mammal (including humans) deal with toxins? They are stored in the fat cells. So if you eat beef marbled with more fat than 40 years ago, you are consuming more toxins (from the cattle) too. With digestive problems fast becoming an explosive problem in the U.S., is it any wonder that whatever is consumed may not be absorbed even if it provided the nutrients it was supposed to?
November 24, 2007 | |
Nutrition or just plain nutty? 
This book seems to be full of formulae for curing mental illnesses. After I finished reading it, I tried to look up "pyroluria" in the Merck Manual and several reputable nutrition books...it wasn't listed. Then I checked the internet and found plenty of listings, but only circular information, as though the writers relied on this book rather than doing original research. Another case of "let the buyer beware"! If you must read this book, try to find it in the library, I wish I had!
January 05, 2006 | |
Outmoded, Outdated, and Out of Business...
Wow, I am amazed at the allure the Brain Bio Center still has after all these years. Its very existence seems to be hotly contested in this forum. Please allow me to settle this question once and for all. My Mom was a patient at the BBC and a former neighbor was an employee. However before I go any further, I should say that despite the "Princeton" attachment, BBC was never affiliated with Princeton University, which has no medical school. It wasn't even within Princeton's city limits; it actually was located in neighboring Montgomery Township (Skillman). But that is not surprising. Entities from churches to multi-million dollar companies who are physically in other municipalities have added "Princeton" to their names and/or rented PO Boxes to obtain a Princeton mailing address just to cash in on the prestige of the Princeton name. This is a very common practice in Central New Jersey. It is all marketing, hype, and horse feathers.
Anyway, the Brain Bio Center has been OUT OF BUSINESS since the early 1990's. Why? Many insurance companies labeled BBC's methods "alternative" (read: questionable) and therefore refused to cover them. Most folks could ill afford to pay cash. BBC just couldn't survive. Carl Pfeiffer died in 1988, and his cohorts have since opened an institute in his name (also in Skillman) that carries on his work.
I am not particularly interested in debating the merits or demerits of Orthomolecular Medicine. But I cannot refrain from one observation. The prevailing attitude regarding mental illness here appears to be "take a pill (or vitamin) and that will fix everything." Any mental health professional of worth would say that is a dangerous belief. Mental illness is much more complicated than that and requires more than simple chemical treatment. Been there, done that. Don't forget too that all kind of nutty treatments for mental illness and other things have come and gone through the years. Exercise good caution and get multiple opinions before you agree to the treatment of anything.
In any case, don't forget this book is 17 years old--long before Al Gore invented the Internet ;-). We have learned so much about medicine and ourselves since then. Try to look for more up-to- date stuff, for comparison if nothing else.
Therefore, I am giving this book one star, for being as obsolete and irrelevant as my long-discarded Commodore 64.
July 20, 2005 | |
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