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E. Fuller Torrey

Out of the Shadows

Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis

E. Fuller Torrey

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English
John Wiley & Sons Inc
11 March 1998
Social welfare & social services
""Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger.""--The New York Times Book Review

""Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames.""--Phil Donahue.

""If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows.""--New York Daily News.

""An important book . . . timely and very well written.""--The New England Journal of Medicine.

""Controversial ideas, forcefully presented.""--Kirkus Reviews

""Moving and vivid. . . . Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader.""--Laurie Flynn Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
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Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 157mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   440g
ISBN:   9780471245322
ISBN 10:   0471245321
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
People in the Shadows: The Many Faces of Mental Illness 1 Nowhere to Go: Homelessness and Mental Illness 13 Jails and Prisons 25 Walking Time Bombs: Violence and the Mentally Ill 43 Psychiatric Ghettos: Communities and Families 61 Looking Backward: Where We Have Been 81 New Initiatives in Funding 91 From Legal Folly to Common Sense: The Right to Get Well 141 From the Woody Allen Syndrome to Brain Disease 167 Looking Forward: Where We Should Be Going 193 Appendix: The Magnitude of Deinstitutionalization 205 References 209 Index 237

E. FULLER TORREY, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at the Neuroscience Center of the National Institute of Mental Health. He is also the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia, which has been described as the ""bible"" of the mentally ill and their families.

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