The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey

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

E. Fuller Torrey

288 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction politics psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of ...

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