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Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

Name: Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
SKU: 9780393341379
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Contributors:

E. Fuller Torrey

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Psychology, Medical

Book Subcategory:

Psychopathology, Health Care Delivery, Mental Health

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Release Date:

2012-01-01

ISBN 13:

9780393341379

Weight:

0.55 lbs

Size:

8.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

306

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E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system, Torrey gives shape to the magnitude of our failure and outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing--and accelerating--disaster. A new epilogue on the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, brings this tragic story up to date.

About the Author
Torrey, E. Fuller: - E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. He is the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center and the executive director for laboratory research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

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