American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (Unabridged) American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (Unabridged)

American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

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, Joseph Kennedy arranged for his daughter to receive a lobotomy, which was a disaster and left her severely retarded.

Fifty years after Kennedy's speech, E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. On staff at the National Institute of Mental Health when the program was being developed and implemented, Torrey draws on his own first-hand account of the creation and launch of the program, extensive research, one-on-one interviews with people involved, and recently unearthed audiotapes of interviews with major figures involved in the legislation. As such, this book provides historical material previously unavailable to the public.

Many now wonder why public mental illness services are so ineffective. At least one-third of the homeless are seriously mentally ill, jails and prisons are grossly overcrowded, largely because the seriously mentally ill constitute 20 percent of prisoners, and public facilities are overrun by untreated individuals. As Torrey argues, it is imperative to understand how we got here in order to move forward towards providing better care for the most vulnerable.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
SM
Stephen McLaughlin
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:49
hr min
RELEASED
2014
June 16
PUBLISHER
Audible Studios
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
461.6
MB

Customer Reviews

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Didn't work

This book didn't work on any of my devices, I emailed iTunes but I don't think there's any guarantee that audiobooks will work so I never heard back from them. Other audiobooks work for me so I think it may be some problem with this book... Tried to delete it and redownload but it doesn't show up in my audiobooks memory storage despite being visible on my playlist. Super frustrating and I'm down $20 😕

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