The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-01-02
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0393341372
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"Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —ChoiceE. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system, Torrey gives shape to the magnitude of our failure and outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing—and accelerating—disaster. A new epilogue on the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, brings this tragic story up to date. Download The Insanity Offense for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Unlearned Lesson: The Role of Substance Misuse in Inquiries into Homicides by Mentally Ill People Pdf

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Release: 2011-11-12
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN/ASIN: B00678A7UM
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In December 1992 Christopher Clunis stabbed Jonathan Zito, a complete stranger, to death on Finsbury Park underground station in an unprovoked attack. Clunis was a diagnosed schizophrenic. As a result an inquiry into Clunis’s treatment and care was established - leading to the Ritchie report.

This is probably the most famous and far reaching of the recent inquiries caught the public attention in its vivid descriptions of the breakdown in care which led to the attack. However both before that report and certainly since its publication, there have been a series of other such inquiries. The Zito Trust, set up after the death of Jonathan Zito, has published "Learning the Lessons" - a comprehensive and complete record of recent inquiries listing over six hundred conclusions and recommendations. These reports are disturbing enough, but for those concerned about substance misuse they make even more shocking reading - of the six hundred recommendations listed only four relate to Download The Unlearned Lesson for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill Pdf

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Release: 1994-02-21
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0029126959
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Americans want to be humane toward the mentally ill, yet we have always been divided about what is best for them and for society. Now, the foremost historian of the care of the mentally ill compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma. In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, Gerald Grob begins with colonial America, when families and local communities accepted responsibility for their mentally ill members. Their solutions varied, from confinement under lock and key, to granting mentally ill persons a wide measure of autonomy. As American society grew larger and more complex, the first mental hospitals were created to deal with growing numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill. Grob brings to life the charismatic and innovative individuals who administered these hospitals and shows how they were successful at first in providing humane care and treatment. But under the pressure of too many patients a Download The Mad Among Us for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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