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The Author Reveals How We Have Failed Our Mentally Ill And Offers A Viable, Provocative Blueprint For Change.--jacket. People In The Shadows: The Many Faces Of Mental Illness -- Nowhere To Go: Homelessness And Mental Illness -- Jails And Prisons -- Walking Time Bombs: Violence And The Mentally Ill -- Psychiatric Ghettos: Communities And Families -- Looking Backward: Where We Have Been -- New Initiatives In Funding -- From Legal Folly To Common Sense: The Right To Get Well -- From The Woody Allen Syndrome To Brain Disease -- Looking Forward: Where We Should Be Going -- Appendix -- References -- Index. E. Fuller Torrey. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 209-235) And Index. This work looks at how the mental health services have failed to serve the growing number of people suffering from serious psychiatric disturbances, with far-reaching implications for community safety, family health, and the well-being of the mentally ill themselves. The author \"reveals how we have failed our mentally ill and offers a viable, provocative blueprint for change.\"--Jacket

Author

Torrey, E. Fuller, E. Fuller Torrey, Edwin F Torrey

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780471161615

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Medicine

Rating

3.94 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14