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Title: Out of the Shadows : Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis by E. Fuller Torrey ISBN: 0471245321 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Documents the Stuggle Among Mental Health Professionals
Comment: Dr. Torrey once again published a book that highlighted a critical issue among mental health professionals. He once again tries to prod the American public into becoming aware of what is happening among the mentally ill in this country. He wants his profession to take a hard look at how they are responding to the crisis of mental illness. He desperately wants them to evaluate how they are responding. And he wants the system changed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Seeking advice for troubled teen
Comment: My l4 year old daughter who is a freshman in High School and who attends several classes with her cousin is concerned about his behavior. She and her best friend told me recently that her cousin sits in class poking his arm with a needle. When I asked what the teacher does they told me they send him down to the Guidance Counselor. My understanding is that they have notified his mother. We are not sure if they've gotten him in therapy or not. I suspect they havn't because she is very very quiet and displays some forms of depression. I was also told that he wrote an essay for school entitled "Why doesn't anyone love me" looking for some input.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is Must Reading!
Comment: This book is one of Dr. Torrey's best. He demonstrates how Americans have allowed their government and medical profession to immorally ignore and degrade the people who need our help the most--those with serious mental illness. Mental health workers would rather treat relatively healthy people going through ordinary life crises. Indeed, a sign of sucess in psychiatry and psychology is having a comfortable office practice where you don't have to see many manic depressives and almost no psychotics. The DSM (Psychiatry's diagnostic manual) is written so that any problem in a normal human life can be considered a "mental illness," so talking to a millionare who is disappointed that he only has $3 million instead of $10 million qualifies as providing mental health care. Meanwhile, those with serious depression kill themselves and people who are disabled because of dangerous hallucinations and delusions live in their own filth on the streets. This is all the more tragic because we have the means to treat the vast majority of mental/brain diseases. Very few people cannot be helped by the hundreds of medications that exist, but many are deprived of treatment because of absurd social and political policy. Torrey implicates several different political groups and movements as playing a big part in the problem. Liberals, civil libertarians, mainstream consrevatives and the far right have all had their reasons for closing mental hospitals and depriving psychiatrists of the ability to effectively treat their patients. Torrey points out that most of this opposition to psychiatry is done out of ignorance and hopes that as more and more people know the facts, society will demand that poeple with life threatening mental diseases be given the treatment they need to live health productive lives, and that the limited mental health resources our nation has will be spent wisely; giving those with the greates need the highest priority.
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Title: Madness in the Streets : How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill by Rael Jean Isaac, Virginia C. Armat ISBN: 0967993903 Publisher: Treatment Advocacy Center Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Invisible Plague: The Rise of mental Illness from 1750 to the Present by E. Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller ISBN: 0813530032 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 10 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker, Bob Whitaker ISBN: 0738203858 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 24 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers (4th Edition) by E. Fuller Torrey ISBN: 0060959193 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital by Alex Beam ISBN: 1891620754 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 24 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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