false 2728995 1 <B>A leading expert on mental illness outlines the tragic consequences of deinstitutionalization and sounds the call for reform.</B><BR><BR>Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely mentally ill; among the incarcerated, at least one-tenth. Of those individuals living in our communities, many are the victims of violent crime. Other untreated individuals commit crimes, including murder and assault. In <I>The Insanity Offense</I>, E. Fuller Torrey takes full stock of this phenomenon, exploring the causes and consequences as he weaves together narratives of individual tragedies in three states with sobering national data on our failure to treat the mentally ill. In the book's final chapters, Torrey outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing&#151;and accelerating&#151;disaster. 2754629 16 6 2008 The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens total:15|5:2|4:6|3:5|2:1|1:1| 15 52 45 9 1 0 false false Thu Jan 29 09:12:57 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 05:59:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 22:59:58 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 15:36:56 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 06:40:06 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 06:57:17 -0700 2008 civil rights. California was the first state to do so and by the mid 1980s, the other 49 states had followed suit.

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