here's jeffrey lieberman addressing the disparity between physical and mental health care. >> the good news is that with a lot ofthings , if you have als or alzheimer's, if you have pancreatic cancer, there's not much then can be done. you need to wait for the rest to be discovered but for the mass majority of mental disorders , as i can find them, we only have enough to make a huge difference. we just don't provide it in an accessible way so the only way that this gets the attention of the media, the public and government is when there's a mass violent incident and some individual who is mentally ill and untreated kills people. >> watch for these programs and more this weekend on book tv. >> alan friedman has been a correspondent for numerous organizations over the past 30 years including the wall street journal, the financialtimes. he's the author of a new book, the epic story of the billionaire who took over italy. you get access to silvio berlusconi . >> i managed to persuade former prime minister bliss tony back in the early 2014to give me his time and we ended up spending 18 mont

new york times science writer natalie commented on jeffrey lieberman's history of psychiatry for the times sunday book review section, saying lieberman recognizes many people remain skeptical about his specialty and uncomfortable with the notion of mental illness generally. it is one thing for somebody to suffer from a malfunctioning of the body's infrastructure like thyroid disease or appendicitis but mental illness targets the mind, the seat of the self and its symptoms are often disguised as personal defects. here is jeffrey lieberman addressing the disparity between physical and mental health care. >> the good news is as with a lot of things, if you have alzheimer's, pancreatic cancer, not much can be done. you have to wait for the next discovery. for the vast majority of mental disorders as i find them, we only have enough to make a huge difference, we just don't provide it in an accessible way. i think this is the only way this gets the attention of the media and government when there is a violent incident and some individual who is mentally ill, kills people. >> watch for thes

new york times science writer commented on jeffrey lieberman's history of psychology of the times sunday book review section. thesection. the government recognizes that many people remain skeptical about his specialty and they comfortable with the notion of mental illness generally. generally. it is one thing for somebody to suffer from a malfunctioning of the body's infrastructure but mental illness targets the mind and its symptoms are often disguised as personal defects. addressing the disparity between physical and mental health care. >> you know, with a lot of things, pancreatic cancer, there is not that much that can be done. but for the vast majority of mental disorders we already have enough to make a huge difference. we just don't provided in an accessible way. i think this is the only way that this kind of gets the attention of the media is the add violence into this, some individual who is mentally ill and untreated kills people. >> people. >> watch for these programs and more this weekend on book tv. >> you're watching book tv on teewun, television for serious readers. here i