No one cares about crazy people the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America
"How did we, as a society, get to this point? It's a question that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Powers set out to answer in this gripping, richly researched social and personal history of mental illness. Powers traces the appalling narrative--from the sadistic abuse o...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hachette Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Membrane
- What is schizophrenia?
- Regulars
- Bedlam, before and beyond
- Eugenics: weeding out the mad
- "A more normal world"
- "When they were young"
- Madness and genius
- "If only, if only, if only . . ."
- Chaos and heartbreak
- The great unraveler
- Surcease
- Debacle
- "Hey fam-- "
- Antipsychotics
- "Something unexplainable"
- "We have done pitifully little about mental illnesses"
- "Primoshadino"
- Red Sox 17, Yankees 1
- Insanity and Icarus
- Someone cares about crazy people.
