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American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
American Psychosis How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
Author: E. Fuller Torrey
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as "dein...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199988716
ISBN-10: 0199988714
Publication Date: 10/1/2013
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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