Product Description:  While mental illness and mental health care are increasingly recognized and accepted in today’s society, awareness of the most severely mentally ill—as well as those who care for them—is still dominated by stereotypes.  Managing Madness in the Community dispels the myth...read more

Product Description: Community Mental Health is a significant interdisciplinary resource for students, practitioners, or policy planners, engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services. Jessica and Sam Rosenberg have carefully pulled together a book containing twenty-two original chapters by leading scholars, consumers, and practitioners in the community mental health field...read more

Product Description: Almost a million Americans who were or would have been hospitalized for serious mental illnesses during the past forty years can now be found living "in the community." Many of these persons are homeless or in jail or prison, but many others have experienced varying degrees of recovery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Proposes a three-phase approach to correcting the problems with the U.S. policies on the mentally ill (view table of contents)

Product Description: The rights of the mental disabled are highlighted in the book.

Product Description: Phil Brown provides a comprehensive analysis of recent mental health policy and practice by focusing on three main themes: political-economic structures, the pitfalls of professionalism, and institutional obstacles to adequate care.

Advocates creating more patientcontrolled mental health facilities as an alternative to traditional mental hospitals which tend to foster alienation and dependence in patients while ignoring and overmedicating them