Out of the Shadows Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis (Paperback)
| Author: E. Fuller Torrey |
| Format: | Paperback |
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| "Powerful. . . . The crisis ÝTorrey¨ delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."— The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames."— Phil Donahue. "If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows."— New York Daily News. "An important book . . . timely and very well written."— The New England Journal of Medicine. "Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."— Kirkus Reviews "Moving and vivid. . . . Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader."— Laurie Flynn Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill |
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"Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."-The New York Times Book Review|| "Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames."-Phil Donahue.|| "If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows."-New York Daily News.|| "An important book . . . timely and very well written."-The New England Journal of Medicine.|| "Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."-Kirkus Reviews|| "Moving and vivid. . . . Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader."-Laurie Flynn Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally IllOur mental health system has dismally failed to serve the growing number of people suffering from serious psychiatric disturbance -- with far-reaching implications for community safety, family health, and the well-being of the mentally ill themselves. This compellingly argued and compassionate book by one of the nation's leading experts describes how this happened and exactly what we can do about it."Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."—The New York Times Book Review| | "Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames."—Phil Donahue.| | "If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows."—New York Daily News.| | "An important book . . . timely and very well written."—The New England Journal of Medicine.| | "Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."—Kirkus Reviews| | "Moving and vivid. . . . Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader."—Laurie Flynn Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill |
Torrey's book is an examination of the approaching crisis in mental health care that he sees as the inevitable result of fact that 2.2 million of the estimated 5.6 million Americans with debilitating mental illnesses are not being treated. Torrey argues for a transformation of legal and social definitions of mental illness for the sake of greater parity of funding for research and treatment resources between mental illnesses and other types of national health issues.
Praise
"Controversial ideas, forcefully presented." 10/01/1996 New York Times Book Review
"...a powerful indictment of how we treat people suffering from acute mental disease....written with a passionate combativeness that borders on polemic, but the crisis he delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger....its analyses deserve serious attention." - Daniel J. Kevles 01/19/1997
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