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The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
The Insanity Offense How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
Author: E. Fuller Torrey
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 ma...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393066586
ISBN-10: 0393066584
Publication Date: 6/16/2008
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Hardcover
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