E. Fuller Torrey
Forfatter af Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients, and Providers
Om forfatteren
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is the research director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, and a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the vis mere Health Sciences. He is also the author and editor of twenty books, including The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths, which was nominated by the National Book Critics Circle as one of the five best biographies of 1983. He has lectured extensively and has appeared on Oprah, 60 Minutes, and 20/20. Dr. Torrey lives in the Washington, D.C., area. vis mindre
Værker af E. Fuller Torrey
American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (2013) 79 eksemplarer
Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers (2002) 76 eksemplarer
The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens (2008) 50 eksemplarer
Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists: The Common Roots of Psychotherapy and Its Future/Revised Edition of "the Mind Game" (1986) 48 eksemplarer
Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture (1992) 37 eksemplarer
Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill - The Abuse of Jails as Mental Hospitals (1992) 4 eksemplarer
Excerpts from Surviving Schizophrenia 4 eksemplarer
Wednesdays @ Sheppard Pratt Lecture Series: The Pathetic Past But Hopeful Future of Schizophrenia 1.7.2015 1 eksemplar
Death of psychiatry 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Torrey, Edwin Fuller
- Fødselsdato
- 1937-09-06
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Uddannelse
- Princeton University (BA magna cum laude)
McGill University (MD)
Stanford University (MA ∙ Anthropology) - Erhverv
- physician
psychiatrist - Organisationer
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Treatment Advocacy Center
Stanley Medical Research Institute - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Special Family Award (1984)
U.S. Public Health Service Commendation Medal
National Caring Award (1991)
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- #23,416
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The Insanity Offense is an accounting of the deinstitutionalization of America and the profound effect it has had on society. E. Fuller Torrey, a research psychiatrist, has followed many cases of mentally ill individuals that have been left without proper care only to cause harm. He puts a light on the real picture of what’s happening. The mentally ill have no where to turn, those who need treatment the most cannot get it because the laws say that an involuntary commitment to a facility cannot happen until the individual has actually acted in violence, not just threatened it. In many cases even if someone is taken in, they will be released after a few days, and chances are they will repeat the cycle again.
Mentally ill peoples are being left homeless, they turn violent and hurt themselves and others, they are victimized because other criminals think of them as weak and defenseless, and they are being incarcerated at higher rates than ever before, left in prisons that don’t have the resources to treat them as needed. Is that more inhumane than involuntarily committing them to get the treatment they need?
Reading this book broke my heart and infuriated me at the same time. The blindness of those with the power to change the circumstances is inexcusable. This book is a true eye-opener and it is something I can see myself referring back to in the future. Honestly, I would have to call it a “must read” because everyone should know what is really happening to the mentally ill of America.… (mere)