Many Forms of Madness

A Family's Struggle With Mental Illness And The Mental Health System

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
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Author: Rosemary Ruether ISBN: 9781451417814
Publisher: Fortress Press Publication: December 3, 2009
Imprint: Fortress Press Language: English
Author: Rosemary Ruether
ISBN: 9781451417814
Publisher: Fortress Press
Publication: December 3, 2009
Imprint: Fortress Press
Language: English

In telling the story of her son’s thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by “idealistic reformers” and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. Ruether asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness “if we really cared.”

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In telling the story of her son’s thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by “idealistic reformers” and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. Ruether asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness “if we really cared.”

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