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

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruether, Rosemary Radford
Other Authors: Ruether, David, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ruether, David, > 1959- > Mental health.
Schizophrenics > Family relationships.
Schizophrenics.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mental health.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Pastoral Resources.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Schizophrenia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > États-Unis.
Schizophrenes > Relations familiales.
Schizophrenes > Californie > Biographies.
Mental illness > Treatment > United States.
Schizophrenics > California > Biography.
United States.
California.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • David's life and hard and (sometimes) good times
  • Symptoms of what? Official symptoms and David's experiences
  • Causes of schizophrenia : mind, body, or both together?
  • Treating persons with mental illness : why such poor treatment?
  • Living arrangements : recovery or maintenance?
  • What would we do if we really cared?

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