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Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill - Softcover

Isaac, Rael Jean; Armat, C. Virginia

 
9780029153819: Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
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ISBN 10: 0029153816 ISBN 13: 9780029153819
Publisher: The Free Press, 1992
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De-institutionalization has been criticized for putting hundreds of mentally ill people on the streets. This book examines the social and political causes of de-institutionalization - the tendency in the 1960s to see the mentally ill as merely different, and hostility to institutional oppression.

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  • PublisherThe Free Press
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0029153816
  • ISBN 13 9780029153819
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages256
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