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Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America's broken mental health care system As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, "Our house is on fire and you're telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?" Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the terrible conditions in which patients lived at eleven now-defunct mental hospitals around the world, and presents details on reported hauntings at these facilities.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people-- sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society-- went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems....
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