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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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....
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