- Mentally ill, Treatment, Psychology, Schizophrenia
In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries, and quite possibly worse than asylum patients did in the early nineteenth century.
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Whitaker, Robert Whitaker
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 341
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Perseus Pub., Perseus Publishing
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781541618060
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“A VISITOR TO THE "mad" wards of Pennsylvania Hospital at the turn of the nineteenth century would have found the halls astir with an air of reform.”
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