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The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens 1st Edition
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A leading expert on mental illness outlines the tragic consequences of deinstitutionalization and sounds the call for reform.
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 the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely mentally ill; among the incarcerated, at least one-tenth. Of those individuals living in our communities, many are the victims of violent crime. Other untreated individuals commit crimes, including murder and assault. In The Insanity Offense, E. Fuller Torrey takes full stock of this phenomenon, exploring the causes and consequences as he weaves together narratives of individual tragedies in three states with sobering national data on our failure to treat the mentally ill. In the book's final chapters, Torrey outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing―and accelerating―disaster.- ISBN-100393066584
- ISBN-13978-0393066586
- Edition1st
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication dateJune 17, 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
- Print length288 pages
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (June 17, 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393066584
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393066586
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,980,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,404 in Medical Mental Illness
- #2,708 in Medical Psychology Pathologies
- #3,237 in Social Services & Welfare (Books)
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E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is the executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and the author of twenty books. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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The downside is the cheap format. The book is hard to read because of little black/white contrast and inexpensive paper. In fact, it is a deterrent to reading it; I would otherwise have finished it already, I'm sure.
But if you are looking for evidence and historical precedence for the problem we have here in our society--- the huge problem--- read this book.
And just as I was finishing the book, I received a letter from one of them with several copies of letters he was sending on behalf of his brother, who is in another prison - and had spent 20 years in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT because he was mentally ill! I wrote several of my own letters on his behalf. Your book and my circumstances wove together perfectly. (But I haven't received an answer to any of my letters.... heavy sigh......
By Amazon Customer on May 25, 2020







