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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

â€œA magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illnessâ€¦Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken.â€â€”Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own sonâ€”in the throes of a manic episodeâ€”broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law.

This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the â€œrevolving doorsâ€ between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experienceâ€”and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.
Country USA
Brand BERKLEY
Manufacturer Berkley
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber new-20170302-c0034811
Color White
ReleaseDate 2007-04-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780425213896

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