Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley
384 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0399153136
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Language: English
Publish: 1145516400000
HealthMedicalMemoirMental HealthMental IllnessNonfictionPsychiatryPsychologySchoolSociology
A dual memoir and journalistic investigation into the criminalization of America’s mentally ill describes the author’s battle with the shortcomings of the nation’s mental health system after his son was declared ill, and exposes what the author learned throughout his year-long investigation into the Miami-Dade County jail. 60,000 first printing.