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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness Paperback - 2007
by Pete Earley
Thrown headlong into the maze of contradictions and disparities that compriseAmerica's mental health system when his son was declared mentally ill, Earleypresents a remarkable piece of investigative journalism that demonstrates howAmerica's jails have become mental health hospitals.
Summary
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.
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.
First line
How would you feel, Dad, Mike asked, "if someone you loved killed himself?"
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- Title Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
- Author Pete Earley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-04-03
- ISBN 9780425213896 / 0425213897
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.08 x 1.03 in (22.76 x 15.44 x 2.62 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Mentally ill - Family relationships, Mentally ill offenders - Florida - Miami
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
[A] clarion call for change and justice, and an enthralling portrait of a father who refused to surrender. (Bebe Moore Campbell)
Takes readers on a harrowing personal journey... (Senator Pete V. Domenici [R-N.M.] and Nancy Domenici)
Takes readers on a harrowing personal journey... (Senator Pete V. Domenici [R-N.M.] and Nancy Domenici)
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