E Fuller Torrey

American Psychosis

How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an insider's perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199988716
• ISBN-10: 0199988714
• Artikelnr.: 37500353

Autorenporträt

E. Fuller Torrey is Executive Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Chevy Chase, MD, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Joe Kennedy: A Man with Problems
2. Robert Felix: A Man with Plans
3. The Birth of the Federal Mental Health Program: 1960-1963
4. The Short, Unhappy Life of the Federal Mental Health Program: 1964-1970
5. The Death of the Federal Mental Health Program: 1971-1980
6. The Perfect Storm: 1981-1999
7. Dimensions of the Current Disaster: 2000-2012
8. Solutions: What Have We Learned and What Should We Do?