The insanity offense, how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens, E. Fuller Torrey
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Label
The insanity offense, how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens, E. Fuller Torrey
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The insanity offense
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
181139537
Responsibility statement
E. Fuller Torrey
Sub title
how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens
Summary
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. Here, advocate 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.--From publisher description
Table Of Contents
Introduction : the origins of a disaster -- Death by the roadside -- Thirteen murders to prevent an earthquake -- "The odds are still in society's favor" -- The killing of three devils -- The sad legacy of Ms. Lessard -- God does not take medication -- The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties : homeless, incarcerated, and victimized -- The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties : violent and homicidal -- An imperative for change -- Fixing the system -- Coda : death by the roadside
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Genre
Subject
- Mentally Ill Persons
- Gesellschaft
- Dangerous Behavior
- Mentally ill + Commitment and detention -- United States
- Mental health laws
- Stationäre psychiatrische Versorgung
- Mentally ill + Commitment and detention
- Psychisch Kranker
- Kriminalität
- Mental health laws -- United States
- Entinstitutionalisierung
- Dangerously mentally ill -- United States
- Mentally ill + Deinstitutionalization -- United States
- USA
- Reform
- Commitment of Mentally Ill
- United States
- Psychische Störung
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Deinstitutionalization
- Mental Health Services + organization & administration
- Nonfiction
- Evaluation
- Mentally ill -- United States
- Mental health services -- United States -- Evaluation
- Dangerously mentally ill
- Psychosoziale Versorgung
- Mental health services + Evaluation
- Mental health + Law and legislation
- Mentally ill + Deinstitutionalization
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- Subject30
- Mentally Ill Persons
- Gesellschaft
- Dangerous Behavior
- Mentally ill + Commitment and detention -- United States
- Mental health laws
- Stationäre psychiatrische Versorgung
- Mentally ill + Commitment and detention
- Psychisch Kranker
- Kriminalität
- Mental health laws -- United States
- Entinstitutionalisierung
- Dangerously mentally ill -- United States
- Mentally ill + Deinstitutionalization -- United States
- USA
- Reform
- Commitment of Mentally Ill
- United States
- Psychische Störung
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Deinstitutionalization
- Mental Health Services + organization & administration
- Nonfiction
- Evaluation
- Mentally ill -- United States
- Mental health services -- United States -- Evaluation
- Dangerously mentally ill
- Psychosoziale Versorgung
- Mental health services + Evaluation
- Mental health + Law and legislation
- Mentally ill + Deinstitutionalization
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