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Commitment of Mentally Ill United States Dangerous Behavior United States Dangerously mentally ill United States Deinstitutionalization United States Mental health laws United States Mental Health Services organization & administration United States Mental health services United States Evaluation Mentally ill Commitment and detention United States Mentally ill Deinstitutionalization United States Mentally Ill Persons United StatesKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: A madman wages a terrifying campaign to eliminate mystery writer Marty Stillwater when he claims he's the real Marty Stillwater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOStridsberg, Sara
Summary: "In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Martin Stillwater, successful mystery writer and loving father to his two daughters, senses the approach of a threatening and destructive presence. His enemy is a clone of himself, accidentally loosed upon Martin's family and other innocent citizens by a high-level conspiracy of power seekers. The clone's hunger for an identity, fed by countless movies viewed between assigned assassinations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOOTorrey, 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 the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008