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American Psychosis

How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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American Psychosis

How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System

By: E. Fuller Torrey

E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an insider's perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program.

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Oxford University Press

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0199988714

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9780199988716

Surviving Schizophrenia

A Manual for Families, Patients, and Providers

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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Surviving Schizophrenia

A Manual for Families, Patients, and Providers

By: E. Fuller Torrey

Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families and mental health professionals. In clear language, this much–praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment and course of schizophrenia and also explores living with it from both the patient and the family's point of view. This new, completely updated fifth edition includes the latest research findings on what causes the disease as well as information about the newest drugs for treatment and answers to the questions most often asked by families, consumers and providers.

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Harper Collins

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0060842598

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9780060842598

Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

A Family Manual

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

A Family Manual

By: E. Fuller Torrey

Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia is back, now in its sixth edition. Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals. In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia and also explores living with it from both the patient's and the family's point of view. This new, completely updated sixth edition includes the latest research findings on what causes the disease, as well as information about the newest drugs for treatment, and answers the questions most often asked by families, consumers, and providers.

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006236443X

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Surviving Schizophrenia, 7th Edition

A Family Manual

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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Surviving Schizophrenia, 7th Edition

A Family Manual

By: E. Fuller Torrey

Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, treatment plans, commonly asked questions and more, the bestselling resource on schizophrenia is back—now in its seventh edition. “E. Fuller Torrey is a brilliant writer. There is no one writing on psychology today whom I would rather read.”— Los Angeles Times Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease that has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals alike. In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia, and explores living with it from both the patient’s and the family’s point of view. This new, completely updated seventh edition includes the latest research findings on what causes the illness, as well as information about the newest drugs for treatment, and answers the questions most often asked by families, consumers, and providers. An indispensable guide for those afflicted by schizophrenia as well as those who care for them, Surviving Schizophrenia covers every aspect of the condition and sheds new light on an often-misunderstood illness.

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HarperCollins

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0062893459

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9780062893451

The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

By: E. Fuller Torrey

Outlines the down side of deinstitutionalization, tracing how steps taken in the 1960s caused patients with severe psychiatric disorders to be discharged from hospitals and rendered untreatable, in an account that makes recommendations for reform.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393341372

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9780393341379

The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey

By: E. Fuller Torrey

During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia and Albany. Arrested in Baltimore in 1844 for his activities, Torrey spent two years in prison before he succumbed to tuberculosis. By then, other abolitionists widely recognized and celebrated Torrey's exploits: running wagonloads of slaves northward in the night, dodging slave catchers and sheriffs, and involving members of Congress in his schemes. Nonetheless, the historiography of abolitionism has largely overlooked Torrey's fascinating and compelling story. The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey presents the first comprehensive biography of one of America's most dedicated abolitionists. According to author E. Fuller Torrey, a distant relative, Charles Torrey pushed the abolitionist movement to become more political and active. He helped advance the faction that challenged the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, provoking an irreversible schism in the movement and making Torrey and Garrison bitter enemies. Torrey played an important role in the formation of the Liberty Party and in the emergence of political abolitionism. Not satisfied with the slow pace of change, he also pioneered aggressive abolitionism by personally freeing slaves, likely liberating more than any other person. In doing so, he inspired many others, including John Brown, who cited Torrey as one of his role models. E. Fuller Torrey's study not only fills a substantial gap in the history of abolitionism but restores Charles Torrey to his rightful place as one of the most dedicated and significant abolitionists in American history.

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LSU Press

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0807152323

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9780807152324

The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

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Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —Choice E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system, Torrey gives shape to the magnitude of our failure and outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing—and accelerating—disaster. A new epilogue on the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, brings this tragic story up to date.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393068889

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9780393068887

In the Name of Education

By: Jonas E. Alexis

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In the Name of Education

By: Jonas E. Alexis

Alexis convincingly examines the crisis in education from a Christian perspective. (Social Issues)

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Xulon Press

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1600347606

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9781600347603

A Profession Without Reason

The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry—Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment

By: Bruce E. Levine

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A Profession Without Reason

The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry—Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment

By: Bruce E. Levine

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field requires a completely fresh look, and clinical psychologist Bruce Levine—a man often at odds with his profession—enlists the early Enlightenment philosopher Baruch de Spinoza to help work through the problem. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. Levine compares the radical/moderate divide among Enlightenment thinkers to a similar divergence between contemporary critics of psychiatry, siding historically with Spinoza in order to bring an equivalent intellectual force to bear upon our modern crisis and calling for new forms of free and enlightened thinking.

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AK Press

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1849354618

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9781849354615

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods

Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods

Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

By: E. Fuller Torrey

Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.

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Columbia University Press

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0231544863

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9780231544863

Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

A Family Manual

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

A Family Manual

By: E. Fuller Torrey

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Signals

Writing Effective Sentences and Paragraphs

By: George E. Bell,Carolyn Farkas

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Signals

Writing Effective Sentences and Paragraphs

By: George E. Bell,Carolyn Farkas

Signals is a comprehensive developmental writing text that stresses sentence-level writing skills within the context of paragraph development. More than just a grammar text, Signals focuses on the choices that writers make to write effectively. In its tone and content Signals treats its students with respect as adults, college students, and as writers. Many of the examples are in paragraph format, with continuous discourse exercises for practice. Exercises are also designed to provide useful information to college students. For example, an exercise might give paragraphs of advice on solving math word problems easily, negotiating car prices, or helping a friend involved in an abusive relationship.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0205298303

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9780205298303

Social Problems

A Critical Thinking Approach

By: Paul J. Baker,Louis E. Anderson,Dean S. Dorn

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Social Problems

A Critical Thinking Approach

By: Paul J. Baker,Louis E. Anderson,Dean S. Dorn

Instead of just describing social problems, this book helps students develop active critical thinking skills through evaluating and analyzing readings from social scientists and journalists on major social problems. The authors goal is to teach students to be lifelong critical consumers of journalistic and social scientific accounts of all kinds of social problems.

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0534190146

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9780534190149

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American Psychosis

American Psychosis

Surviving Schizophrenia

Surviving Schizophrenia

Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

Surviving Schizophrenia, 7th Edition

Surviving Schizophrenia, 7th Edition

The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey

The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey

The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

In the Name of Education

In the Name of Education

A Profession Without Reason

A Profession Without Reason

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods

Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition

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