Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill
暫譯: 無處可去：無家可歸的精神病患者的悲劇奧德賽
Torrey, E. Fuller
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-03-21
- 售價: $2,770
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,631
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 196
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031846842
- ISBN-13: 9783031846847
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商品描述
This open access book attempts to answer the question, "Why are so many severely mentally ill people homeless or incarcerated?" Updated since it's original 1988 release, this book tracks the history of this question in the United States. The answer begins in 1955, when the United States deinstitutionalized the 559,000 patients who were in state mental hospitals. Today, only 35,000 remain. In 1963, Congress funded President Kennedy's proposed federally funded Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs), whose main purpose was to provide care for the patients being released from the hospitals. However, most of the CMHCs never did so, but rather became counseling centers for individuals with less serious mental illnesses. The lack of psychiatric aftercare for severely mentally ill individuals resulted in more than 200,000 of them who are homeless and more than 250,000 others who are in jails and prisons. This story also includes little known details such as the role played by conscientious objectors who worked in the state hospitals during WWII; Rosemary Kennedy's psychosis; the influence of the conservative John Birch society on Presidents Nixon and Reagan; and mental health myths incorrectly attributed to Reagan. Finally, the book discusses what needs to be done to improve the mental illness treatment system. This is an ideal guide for psychiatrists, psychologists, and members of the public who are concerned about homelessness.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本開放存取的書籍試圖回答「為什麼有這麼多重度精神病患者無家可歸或被監禁？」這個問題。自1988年首次出版以來，這本書更新了有關此問題在美國歷史上的追蹤。答案始於1955年，當時美國將559,000名在州立精神病院的患者去機構化。如今，僅剩35,000名患者。1963年，國會資助了甘迺迪總統提議的聯邦資助社區精神健康中心（CMHCs），其主要目的是為從醫院釋放的患者提供照護。然而，大多數CMHCs並未實現這一目標，而是成為了為輕度精神疾病患者提供諮詢的中心。對重度精神病患者缺乏精神病後續照護，導致超過200,000人無家可歸，還有超過250,000人被關在監獄中。這個故事還包括一些鮮為人知的細節，例如在二戰期間在州立醫院工作的良心拒服兵役者的角色；羅絲瑪莉·甘迺迪的精神病；保守派約翰·伯奇協會對尼克森和雷根總統的影響；以及錯誤歸因於雷根的心理健康神話。最後，這本書討論了改善精神疾病治療系統所需採取的措施。這是一本理想的指南，適合精神科醫生、心理學家以及關心無家可歸問題的公眾。
作者簡介
Dr. Torrey is a clinical and research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He holds degrees from Princeton (BA), McGill (MD), and Stanford (MA in anthropology) universities and trained in psychiatry at the latter. During the 1970s, when many of the events described in this book were taking place, he worked at the National Institute of Mental Health. He is currently the Associate Director for Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has authored or co-authored 20 other books, including Out of the Shadows, The Insanity Offense, American Psychosis, Surviving Schizophrenia, and Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill. The Roots of Treason, his biography of Ezra Pound, was nominated as one of the five best biographies of 1983 by the National Book Critics Circle.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
托瑞博士是一位臨床及研究精神科醫師，專門研究精神分裂症和雙相情感障礙。他擁有普林斯頓大學（學士）、麥吉爾大學（醫學博士）和史丹佛大學（人類學碩士）的學位，並在史丹佛大學接受精神科醫學的訓練。在1970年代，這本書中描述的許多事件發生時，他在國家心理健康研究所工作。目前，他是史丹利醫學研究所的研究副主任，以及美國軍醫學院的精神科教授。他已經撰寫或共同撰寫了20本其他書籍，包括《走出陰影》、《精神病罪》、《美國精神病》、《生存於精神分裂症》和《將重度精神病患者犯罪化》。他的傳記《叛國的根源》被全國書評圈提名為1983年五本最佳傳記之一。
