Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill

by Rael Jean Isaac and Virginia C. Armat

Book Overview

De-institutionalization has been criticized for putting hundreds of mentally ill people on the streets. This book examines the social and political causes of de-institutionalization - the tendency in the 1960s to see the mentally ill as merely different, and hostility to institutional oppression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029153816
• ISBN13: 9780029153819
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"