Donate now to the International Schizophrenia Foundation. Your support is essential to promote the wide acceptance and use of orthomolecular treatment to enable people with mental illness to lead healthy, independent lives. The ISF, as non-profit foundation, has a difficult mission: to offer people a lifeline and a way out of the drug-centric psychiatric climate which offers little hope for recovery for lives shattered by mental illness. Without your support, the ISF would not be able to educate laypersons and professionals, connect patients with orthomolecular practitioners and fund research, and in so many ways be a voice of true hope where drugs alone have failed so many.

Your generosity allows the ISF to make extraordinary recoveries possible. We couldn't do it without you.

Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD

Sara Sochaczevski

Bradford Weeks, MD

Audrey A. Alexander	Harold D. Foster, PhD
Frances Fuller	Ron Hunninghake, MD
Richard Johnson, MD	Kent MacLeod, BSc Phm
Jack M. Kay	David Miller, LLB
Rosalie Moscoe	Bruce Reid
Gert Schuitemaker, PhD	Garry Vickar, MD

Steven J. Carter

What is the ISF?

It is a national, non-profit, charitable organization federally chartered in 1968, with international affiliates dedicated to raising the levels of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the schizophrenias and allied disorders.

How Does it Carry Out its Functions?

The ISF has developed programs which include professional and public information, working with mental health care professionals and governments, and research. The ISF information program includes:

• A list of publications including more than 300 books, pamphlets and reprints.
• Publishing The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, formerly known as The Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, a unique medical journal for health professionals.
• Publishing Nutrition & Mental Health, a newsletter with special emphasis on psychiatric illnesses.
• Annual international conferences held alternately in Toronto and Vancouver, focusing on nutritional medicine.

In addition, public meetings, conferences, radio, television programs and newspaper articles are also part of the program. The ISF and its branches answer thousands of enquiries each year from people seeking information and help. The ISF works with governments, physicians, nurses, teachers, psychologists and community organizations to improve treatment and preventive measures, to reduce fear and stigma, and to provide the best possible treatment and rehabilitation services.
The ISF also promotes and supports research.

How is the ISF Funded?

The ISF gets its main income from memberships, subscriptions to the quarterly publications Nutrition & Mental Health and the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, donations and sale of literature.

How Can the ISF Members Help?

The members of the ISF are vital to the organization because they can work at a local level, either through the ISF branches, the ISF head office or on their own, to provide services in their communities and to give information and encouragement to people who need help.

For information about how the foundation can help, please contact:

International Schizophrenia Foundation
16 Florence Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2N 1E9
Tel. (416) 733-2117
Fax (416) 733-2352
E-mail centre@orthomed.org –Important: If you would like a literature sample or a listing of orthomolecular health professionals in your area, please include your name and mailing address.

Masks of Madness: Science of Healing explores the orthomolecular approach to treating mental illness, chronicling the experiences of patients and physicians who have gone beyond the inadequacies of conventional psychiatry to find real hope in orthomolecular medicine.
Hosted by actor Margot Kidder, who herself suffered from bipolar disorder, the film recounts her journey to recovery using orthomolecular medicine. Joining Margot, other patients participate in a candid roundtable discussion of their individual descents into mental illness, their difficulties in getting answers from conventional psychiatry, and their final recoveries using alterations in diet, vitamin and mineral supplementation, and a minimum of pharmacological intervention.
Well known doctors and health professionals also share their experiences. Abram Hoffer, Hugh Riordan, Hyla Cass, Bradford Weeks, Michael Janson, Patrick Holford and others describe the elements of their therapeutic approach, their satisfaction at seeing patients recover from the “incurable,” as well as the professional resistance they faced when incorporating orthomolecular treatment into their medical and psychiatric practices.
The major orthomolecular building blocks for optimal mental health are introduced in a comprehensive way to demonstrate that orthomolecular medicine is a real answer for people suffering from mental illness and for physicians who long to make significant changes in the lives of their patients. Everyone will benefit from seeing this absorbing, informative and inspiring documentary.

Our extensive publication list provides professionals and the public with a resource for self-education in orthomolecular therapies for physical and mental illnesses. We carry reprints from our journal as well as many books on a wide range of issues. Below is a list catalogued by subject. Click on the subject you are interested in to see what we offer. You can also download our pdf publication list below, fill it out and fax us your order.

Publication List

New! Video Highlights from the ISF's documentary
Masks of Madness

Our quarterly newsletter focuses on orthomolecular medicine in relation to the treatment and prevention of mental illnesses. Complementary orthomolecular treatments for such illnesses as schizophrenia, depression, autism, behavioural disorders are investigated, along with current issues in the mental health field, patient advocacy and current research. This newsletter is unique as a resource as it is devoted exclusively to the orthomolecular approach to mental health.

Have a look at the back issues in our online archive below.