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

Earley, Pete

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ISBN 10 : 0399153136 ISBN 13 : 9780399153136

Editeur : Putnam Pub Group, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Earley Pete

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-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 "revolving doors" 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 experience-and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Pete Earley, a former reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of seven works of nonfiction, including the bestsellers The Hot House and Family of Spies, and the multi-award-winning Circumstantial Evidence. According to the Washingtonian magazine, he is one of ten journalist/authors in America "who have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency." Earley is also the author of two novels.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Putnam Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0399153136
• ISBN 13: 9780399153136
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 372