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American psychosis : how the federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system

text American psychosis : how the federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system

Summary
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with tr... Read more
Contents
Joe Kennedy : a man with problems -- Robert Felix : a man with plans -- The birth of the federal mental health program: 1960-1963 -- The short, unhappy life of the federal mental health program: 1964-1970 -- The death of the federal mental health ... Read more
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204 p.;
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Oxford University Press 2014

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