No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America

By Ron Powers

Categories: Health, Fitness & Dieting, History

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Powers combines a history of how America has treated people with mental illness with the story of his own family. Both of his sons were diagnosed with schizophrenia, and one took his own life. Powers traces the history of asylums, deinstitutionalization and the treatment of the mentally ill in prisons, and argues for better care and more compassion for those with serious mental illness.

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