The insanity offense : how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens
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- The insanity offense : how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens
- Title remainder
- how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens
- Statement of responsibility
- E. Fuller Torrey
- Subject
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- Dangerous Behavior
- Dangerously mentally ill
- Dangerously mentally ill
- Dangerously mentally ill -- United States
- Deinstitutionalization
- Entinstitutionalisierung
- Entinstitutionalisierung
- Evaluation
- Gesellschaft
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Kriminalität
- Mental Health Services -- organization & administration
- Mental health -- Law and legislation
- Mental health laws
- Mental health laws -- United States
- Mental health services -- Evaluation
- Mental health services -- United States -- Evaluation
- Commitment of Mentally Ill
- Mentally Ill Persons
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States
- Mentally ill -- Deinstitutionalization
- Mentally ill -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States
- Mentally ill -- United States
- Nonfiction
- Psychisch Kranker
- Psychische Störung
- Psychosoziale Versorgung
- Reform
- Stationäre psychiatrische Versorgung
- USA
- USA
- United States
- United States
- Mental health services -- United States -- Evaluation
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DNLM/DLC
- Dewey number
- 362.196/89
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RC443
- LC item number
- .T67 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2008 H-943
- WM 33 AA1
- NLM item number
- T694i 2008
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