No One Cares About Crazy People - My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in AmericaPaperback
No One Cares About Crazy People - My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in AmericaPaperback New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of…
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No One Cares About Crazy People - My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in AmericaPaperback
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.From the centuries of torture of lunatiks at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted.Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers's beloved son Kevin -- spirited, endearing, and gifted -- who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic.A blend of history,