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Insanity offense : how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens

text Insanity offense : how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens

Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)

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 ... Read more
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 medicati... Read more
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Description
xvi, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
W.W. Norton 2008
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 362.196 TOR in Adult Non-fiction Available

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