Crazy : A Fathers Search Through Americas Mental Health Madness

English

ISBN: 0425213897

EAN: 9780425213896

Category: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General/Biography & Autobiography / General/Psychology / Mental Illness/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 04/04/2007

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Former Washington Postreporter 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 neighbors house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley familys 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.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize – null 

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Crazy : A Fathers Search Through Americas Mental Health Madness

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 1.15 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 13.47 oz

Pages: 384