Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System
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- Synopsis
- In telling the story of her son's thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, the author lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout the history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by "idealistic reformers" and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. She asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness "if we really cared."
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 202 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780800696511
- Publisher:
- Fortress Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/27/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Fortress Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Parenting and Family, Psychology
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- With:
- David Ruether
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