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Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780471245322)
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x"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
Author: E. Fuller Torrey
ISBN-10: 0471245321
ISBN-13: 9780471245322
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Published: 02/26/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.32w x 0.69d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/12/1998 pg. 32
"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
Author: E. Fuller Torrey
ISBN-10: 0471245321
ISBN-13: 9780471245322
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Published: 02/26/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.32w x 0.69d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/12/1998 pg. 32
By E. Fuller Torrey
xE. FULLER TORREY, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at the Neuroscience Center of the National Institute of Mental Health. He is also the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia, which has been described as the "bible" of the mentally ill and their families.
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