Peter Wyden

What happened in Nazi Germany to turn a fondly remembered childhood Jewish classmate into a serial murderess and tool of the Gestapo? Seeking answers, Peter Wyden traveled back into his own past. The result is this deeply personal work, a true-life Sophie's Choice, unique in Holocaust literature. Photos.

Stella

The Untold Story

Bay of Pigs

Before Hiroshima and After

Day One

George Robert Bach

How to Fight Fair in Love and Marriage

The Intimate Enemy

Intimate Enemy

This story of a father guiding his son from despair to hope is a chilling, inspiring journey through the mysterious tunnel of schizophrenia--a world once closed and forbidding, now suddenly radiating excitement as thousands of patients are, in effect, being reborn. Jeff Wyden, a bright, happy boy in childhood, began to withdraw in adolescence, and by the age of twenty-one was severely psychotic, disconnected from reality. He was schizophrenic. In the ensuing twenty-five years, Peter Wyden accompanied his son into a hell without certainties as they searched for a solution. We see them pass through the hands of more than fifty psychiatrists and countless hospitals, clinics, and halfway houses. Doctors and health-care providers help and sometimes hinder both father and son in their odyssey through hypnosis, electroshock, dozens of drug therapies, and disabling "side effects." Throughout their ordeal, the father's management of his son's managers is his daily task, self-assigned despite self-doubt. He is alternately tolerant and challenging while he observes and learns, always primed for more of Jeff's mercurial signs of new crises. Along the way we learn about the history of the treatment of schizophrenia, from barbaric stopgaps like prefrontal lobotomy to the biomedical treatments that have revolutionized psychiatry. And finally, there is the new drug Olanzapine--a godsend for Jeff, and reason for cheer. It is not a cure, but many consider it the safest, most effective treatment to date (the first of similar medications recently licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, with more on the way). The story of its development is told here for the first time. Until now, few of us have realized that two and a half million Americans, mostly young and intelligent, are schizophrenic, merely existing through the decades, separated from reason, rendered dysfunctional by the costly and little-understood disease. Fifty million people worldwide suffer from it. This compelling and enlightening book offers useful information about what can be done for them today--and the hope of more help to come.

Conquering Schizophrenia

This chilling, inspiring journey through the mysterious tunnel of schizophrenia tells the story of a father guiding his son from despair to hope. In the tradition of "Is There No Place on Earth for Me?" and "The Eden Express", this compelling and enlightening book offers hope for the one percent of the world's population affected by the disease.

A Father, His Son, and a Medical Breakthrough

The Passionate War

Pro-Hitler sentiment in Germany and its implications are laid bare in this chilling history of the Nazi leader's continuing legacy and influence in that country since Hitler's death in 1945. 25,000 first printing.

The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler

The Hitler Virus

Dan Rather

The anchorman recounts his childhood in Texas, revealing his youthful ambitions and reminiscing about small town life in pre-World War II America

I Remember

An account of the experiences of Stella Goldschlag, a German Jew who went on to become a "catcher" for the Gestapo, explores why a Jewish woman would hunt down other Jews for the Nazis. 35,000 first printing.

Barbara Wyden

The authors "describe the early signs of homosexuality, taking care to distinguish between occasional harmless adolescence experimentation and the more serious unfolding of a lifelong pattern. And they suggest a number of steps parents can take to prevent the disorder."

What Every Thoughtful Parent Should Know about Homosexuality

Growing Up Straight

Pro-Hitler sentiment in Germany and its implications are laid bare in this chilling history of the Nazi leader's legacy and continuing influence in that country since his death in 1945. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Peter Wyden

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