No one cares about crazy people : the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America /

From the earliest efforts to segregate the "mad" in society, to the wily World War II-era social engineers who twisted Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory to fit a much darker agenda, to the follies of the antipsychiatry movement (starring L. Ron Hubbard and his gifted...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Powers, Ron (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Powers, Ron > Family. Powers, Ron. Schizophrenia > History. Mental health services > History. Mental health services. Mentally ill. Mental illness > United States > History. Mental illness > Treatment > United States > History. Mentally ill > Care > United States > History. Mental Health Services > history Schizophrenia > history Mental Health Services > legislation & jurisprudence Mentally Ill Persons United States Mental Health Services Schizophrénie > Histoire. Services de santé mentale > Histoire. Services de santé mentale. Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale. Maladies mentales > États-Unis > Histoire. Maladies mentales > Traitement > États-Unis > Histoire. Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > États-Unis > Histoire. mentally ill. PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Schizophrenia. Mentally ill > Care. Mental illness > Treatment. Mental illness. United States. Families. Schizophrenia. Mental health services > United States > History. Mentally ill > United States. Personal Narrative Personal narratives Personal narratives. History. Récits personnels.

Table of Contents:

Membrane
What is schizophrenia?
Regulars
Bedlam, before and beyond
Eugenics: weeding out the mad
"A more normal world"
"When they were young"
Madness and genius
"If only, if only, if only . . ."
Chaos and heartbreak
The great unraveler
Surcease
Debacle
"Hey fam- "
Antipsychotics
"Something unexplainable"
"We have done pitifully little about mental illnesses"
"Primoshadino"
Red Sox 17, Yankees 1
Insanity and Icarus
Someone cares about crazy people.