The insanity offense : how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens / E. Fuller Torrey.

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 eff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, [2008], ©2008.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mental health services > United States > Evaluation.
Mentally ill > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > United States.
Dangerously mentally ill > United States.
Mental health laws > United States.
Commitment of Mentally Ill.
Dangerous Behavior.
Deinstitutionalization.
Mental Health Services > organization & administration.
Mentally Ill Persons.
United States.
Physical Description:xvi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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