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Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System

Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System

In telling the story of her son's thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, Rosemary Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by "idealistic reformers" and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. Ruether asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness "if we really cared."
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  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800696511
  • eBook ISBN 9781451417814
  • Age/Grade Range Adult
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
  • Pages 208
  • Publication Date December 3, 2009
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