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Title: No One Cares About Crazy People: Heartbreak & Chaos in American Health
Author: POWERS RON
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 28/04/2017
Imprint: HACHETTE
Price: $55.00
Publishing status: Active
From the centuries of torture of “lunatiks” at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted.
Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers’s beloved son Kevin–spirited, endearing, and gifted–who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic.
A blend of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs ending with a consideration of where we might go from here, this is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been misunderstood.
ISBN: 9780316341172
Weight: 300gr
Pages: 342