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"Powerful...The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."--The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and remarkably detailed...Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out ...of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames."--Phil Donahue. "If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done...Dr. E. Fuller Torrey ...provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows."--New York Daily News. "An important book ...timely and very well written."--The New England Journal of Medicine. "Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."--Kirkus Reviews "Moving and vivid...Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader."--Laurie Flynn Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Out of the Shadows
• Subtitle: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis
• Author: Fuller E. Torrey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780471245322
• ISBN: 0471245321
• ID: 05172678
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Weight: 634 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 157 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. March 1998

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