Out of the Shadows
Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis

E. Fuller Torrey (Author)

9780471245322, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 11 March 1998

256 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.44 kg

"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

People in the Shadows: The Many Faces of Mental Illness 1

Nowhere to Go: Homelessness and Mental Illness 13

Jails and Prisons 25

Walking Time Bombs: Violence and the Mentally Ill 43

Psychiatric Ghettos: Communities and Families 61

Looking Backward: Where We Have Been 81

New Initiatives in Funding 91

From Legal Folly to Common Sense: The Right to Get Well 141

From the Woody Allen Syndrome to Brain Disease 167

Looking Forward: Where We Should Be Going 193

Appendix: The Magnitude of Deinstitutionalization 205

References 209

Index 237

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]