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Fresh Air, April 17, 2006
- Length: 51 mins
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Summary
Journalist Pete Earley and psychiatrist Dr. E. Fuller Torrey on this edition of Fresh Air. Pete Earley's new book is Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness. It's about his struggle to get his bi-polar son properly diagnosed and treated. In his efforts to help his son, he investigated the mental health system. One of the things he found is that our jails and prisons have become our new state asylums.
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. He is the President of the Treatment Advocacy Center and Associate Director for Laboratory Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute. He is the author of 20 books, including Surviving Manic-Depressive Illness, Surviving Schizophrenia, The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present. (Broadcast Date: April 17, 2006)
Want to listen to great interviews from the Fresh Air archive? You can find past programs by clicking on archive under periodicals.
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