American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System

by E. Fuller Torrey

Book Overview

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as "deinstitutionalization," continues to impact mental health care. Though he never publicly acknowledged it, the program was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199988714
• ISBN13: 9780199988716
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"