This book realistically describes the experiences of people living with schizophrenia and their
families from the detection of the first symptoms until the development of treatments and
strategies to cope with this unique human condition. Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis in
which subjective aspects such as hallucinatory and delusional phenomena tend to distort the
understanding of reality. Because psychotic states fluctuate in intensity over time those
affected literally live between reason and illusion. Between Reason and Illusion: Demystifying
Schizophrenia is an invitation to understand what it means to develop schizophrenia and to live
with it throughout one's life. And this is an invitation to all those who are in some way
affected by this condition: those who live with it family members friends health
professionals and everyone who want to have a non-stigmatized view of mental disorders and
people who live with them. Faced with psychosis the person affected by the disease and the
family are lost and go looking for alternative or spiritual help which usually delays the
beginning of treatment. Jorge Cecília and Rodrigo had the courage to face a difficult theme
and the happy idea of writing a book of an educational nature about schizophrenia. The book's
originality lies in the fact that it was written taking into account the experience of the
person with the disease and his or her family members in the face of this something new that
has occurred in their lives. - Dr. Itiro Shirakawa Professor Emeritus of the Paulista Medical
School of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP EPM) Brazil.
