Transcription of DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION: A PSYCHIATRIC TITANIC
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deinstitutionalization : A PSYCHIATRIC TITANIC ---------------------------------------- --------- This excerpt is drawn from Chapters 1, 3 and the Appendix of: Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis by E. Fuller Torrey, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997). This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ---------------------------------------- --------- deinstitutionalization is the name given to the policy of moving severely mentally ill people out of large state institutions and then closing part or all of those institutions; it has been a major contributing factor to the mental illness crisis. (The term also describes a similar process for mentally retarded people, but the focus of this book is exclusively on severe mental illnesses.)
DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION: A PSYCHIATRIC TITANIC ----- This excerpt is drawn from Chapters 1, 3 and the Appendix of: Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis by …
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