Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis

Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis

by E. Fuller Torrey

256 pages· 1998· ISBN 9780471245322
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"Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir anyhalfway sensitive human being to anger."--The New York Times BookReview

"Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearestand most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his owninsightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal thatremains one of America's most enduring shames."--PhilDonahue.

"If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish inhis second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. Itcan be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-yearroad map in Out of the Shadows."--New York Daily News.

"An important book . . . timely and very well written."--The NewEngland Journal of Medicine.

"Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."--Kirkus Reviews

"Moving and vivid. . . . Torrey's powerful prescription for changechallenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. Hissearing case examples will haunt the reader."--Laurie FlynnExecutive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

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