American psychosis : how the federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system / E. Fuller Torrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill--Care--United States--History.

Mentally ill.

Mentally ill--Services for--United States.

Mental health policy--United States.

Mental health policy.

Mental health services--United States--Evaluation.

Mental health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a tribute to Kennedy's sister Rosemary, who was born mildly retarded and developed a schizophrenia-like illness. Terrified she'd become pregnant,

Contents:

Joe Kennedy : a man with problems

Robert Felix : a man with plans

The birth of the federal mental health program: 1960-1963

The short, unhappy life of the federal mental health program: 1964-1970

The death of the federal mental health program: 1971-1980

The perfect storm: 1981-1999

Dimensions of the current disaster: 2000-2013

Solutions : what have we learned and what should we do?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-936112-6

0-19-998872-2

OCLC:

852899172