Table of Contents

People in the Shadows: The Many Faces of Mental Illness 1

Nowhere to Go: Homelessness and Mental Illness 13

Jails and Prisons 25

Walking Time Bombs: Violence and the Mentally Ill 43

Psychiatric Ghettos: Communities and Families 61

Looking Backward: Where We Have Been 81

New Initiatives in Funding 91

From Legal Folly to Common Sense: The Right to Get Well 141

From the Woody Allen Syndrome to Brain Disease 167

Looking Forward: Where We Should Be Going 193

Appendix: The Magnitude of Deinstitutionalization 205

References 209

Index 237

About the Author

E. FULLER TORREY, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at the Neuroscience Center of the National Institute of Mental Health. He is also the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia, which has been described as the "bible" of the mentally ill and their families.