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Don't know where to start?

If you are a family member, start with a special issue of our newsletter dedicated to helping you. It includes a feature on helping families prepare for crisis and fight for treatment; a new study showing that assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) reduces caregiver strain; voices from families on AOT; and a guide to navigating the HIPAA privacy law. We also have basic fact sheets on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and lack of insight.

If you are an advocate and want information on how to change your state laws or get people to use them, start on our advocates page.

If you are a law enforcement officer, check out our most recent issue of Catalyst.  We understand law enforcement officers are increasingly the first responders to someone with a mental illness who is in crisis.  Visit our law enforcement web page and Catalyst for tips for dealing with someone who is in crisis, and for ways to change your state law and push treatment of severe mental illness back into the mental health community.

To stay updated on our activities and these issues, subscribe to our free hardcopy newsletter Catalyst, sign up for our free weekly enewsletter, and read our blog, updated most weekdays.

If you'd like to honor someone who selflessly advocates for treatment of severe mental illnesses, check out our annual Torrey Advocacy Commendation award.  Once a year we accept nominations for this respected award.

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FACT SHEETS/BRIEFING PAPERS

MEDICAL RESOURCES

• Schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder are diseases of the brain
• About schizophrenia
• About bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness)
• Anosognosia (impaired awareness of illness): A major problem for individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
• Cognitive impairment: A major problem for individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
• What is wrong with the brain in schizophrenia?
• Do antipsychotic drugs change brain structure?
• REVISED! Why individuals with severe psychiatric disorders often do not take their medications

CONSEQUENCES OF LACK OF TREATMENT

• Consequences of nontreatment
• Overview: Homelessness, incarceration, episodes of violence: Way of life for almost half of Americans with untreated severe mental illnesses
• REVISED! Criminalization of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders
• REVISED! Homelessness: Tragic side effect of non-treatment
• REVISED! Suicide: One of the consequences of failing to treat individuals with severe psychiatric disorders
• REVISED! Victimization: One of the consequences of failing to treat individuals with severe psychiatric disorders
• REVISED! Violent behavior: One of the consequences of failing to treat individuals with psychiatric disorders
• REVISED! Violence - Unfortunate and all too often tragic side-effect of untreated severe mental illness
• "Violence and Schizophrenia" published in Schizophrenia Research, November 2006

ASSISTED OUTPATIENT TREATMENT

• THE BASICS: Assisted outpatient treatment reduces hospital stays, violence and arrests, and improves chances of recovery for people with severe mental illnesses
• AN EXAMPLE: Assisted outpatient treatment: Results from New York's Kendra's Law
• Assisted outpatient treatment: Myth vs. reality
• REVISED! What percentage of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders are receiving no treatment?
• Options for assisted treatment
• What do consumers say?

• Who supports AOT?

ISSUES TO CONSIDER

• Law enforcement and people with severe mental illnesses
• Medicaid discrimination against people with severe mental illnesses
• Stigma and violence

• The effects of involuntary medication on individuals with schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness

REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS  

NOTE: Some of these reports and presentations are in PDF files. If you have trouble accessing the file, download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat reader, or give us a call at 703 294 6001 and we will mail you a copy.

REPORTS

• "The Shortage of Public Hospital Beds for Mentally Ill Persons" by Dr. E Fuller Torrey, Kurt Entsminger, Dr. Jeffery Geller, Jonathan Stanley and DJ Jaffe., March 17, 2008
• Assisted outpatient treatment: "A step in the right direction" by Judge Randy T. Rogers and Jonathan Stanley, J.D., May 12, 2004 (PDF)

• Kendra's Law: An Interim Report on the Status of Assisted Outpatient Treatment
• A federal failure in psychiatric research: Continuing NIMH negligence in funding sufficient research on serious mental illnesses, November 19, 2003
• Studies of individuals with schizophrenia never treated with antipsychotic medications: A review (available in HTML or PDF), Schizophrenia Research, Oct. 2002

• Law enforcement and the mentally ill (also available in printable PDF format), a special report of the Regional Organized Crime Information Center, a technical assistance group for law enforcement (Sept. 2001)
• Threats to radio and television personnel in the US by individuals with severe mental illnesses
• Missions impossible: The ongoing failure of NIMH to support sufficient research on severe mental disorders
• Hospital closures and the Medicaid IMD exclusion
• Reforming the Mental Health Act, a British Department of Health white paper

PRESENTATIONS

• NAMI 2007: Slides from Dr. Torrey's presentation: The Causes and Consequences of Our Failure to Treat Individuals with Severe Psychiatric Disorders"
• NAMI 2006: Slides from Dr. Torrey's presentation: "A report card on NAMI"
• NAMI 2002: Slides from Dr. Torrey's presentation: "Hope through advocacy"

OTHER RESOURCES AND MATERIALS

• 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) hotline

• In times of disaster: Coping tips for families of persons with serious mental illness, a special report of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (Nov. 2001) - presented as a special resource for families
• Nurse Ratched with Footnotes: A review Robert Whitaker's Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey

NEWS ARTICLES, EDITORIALS, AND OPINION PIECES

• OPED Deadly Madmen (New York Post, February 22, 2008)
• INTERVIEW National mental health group chooses W. Va. native as director (West Virginia Public Broadcasting, November 21, 2007)
• OPED Archaic law does harm to mentally ill (Harrisburg Patriot-News, November 4, 2007)
• OPED Making a commitment to help the mentally ill (San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2007)
• LETTER California needs Laura's Law (Salinas Californian, September 3, 2007)
• LETTER Treating mentally ill (Philadelphia Inquirer, September 3, 2007)
• NEWS Search for schizophrenia's roots started at home (Psychiatric News, July 6, 2007)
• EDITORIAL To save lives, change psychlaws (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 7, 2007)
• OPED Commitment Phobia (Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2007)
• OPED Help The Ill Before They Kill (New York Post, April 23, 2007)
• OPED When Laws Create Barriers to Care, the Consequenses should not be a surprise (Washington Post, April 20, 2007)
• OPED Complacency Can't Cure Mental Illness (Dallas Morning News, April 19, 2007)
• OPED State Must Offer More Options for Treating Mentally Ill (Star Ledger, February 26, 2007)
• NEWS Crime Prevention (Sun Journal, February 21, 2007)
• LETTER "Helping those suffering with mental illness," (San Diego Union Tribune, January 20, 2007)
• ARTICLE "Mental health policies are cause for alarm in the corrections community" published in Sheriff magazine, January 2007
• ARTICLE "Violence and Schizophrenia" published in Schizophrenia Research, November 2006
• LETTER Kendra's Law is a moral responsibility (Albuquerque Tribune, October 10, 2006)
• OPED Mentally ill need Kendra's Law today (Las Cruces Sun News, September 29, 2006)
• OPED Kendra's Law for Albuquerque and N.M. (Albuquerque Tribune, September 7, 2006)
• OPED Kendra's Law Stops the Cycle (Albuquerque Journal, August 31, 2006)
• NEWS An American tragedy (Essence Magazine, August 2006)
• OPED Mental Illness Is Not a Crime: How can the Supreme Court be so ignorant about insanity? (The Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2006)
• OPED Mental illness: Not everyone recovers from it (The Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel, July 9, 2006)
• NEWS Civil liberties must not block mental treatment (The Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel, June 27, 2006)
• OPED Dealing With the Dangerously Ill (Washington Post, May 21, 2006)
• LETTER Hope During a Crisis (The Alibi, May 11, 2006)
• NEWS Saving my son (Washingtonian Magazine, April 13, 2006)
• OPED Helping those who don't know they want it (Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2006)
• LETTER Mental health treatment must be improved (Waltham News Tribune, January 6, 2006)
• OBITUARY Morton Birnbaum, 79, physician lawyer sought right to treatment for mentally ill (The New York Sun, December 1, 2005)
• NEWS Individual rights must be balanced with 'caring coercion' (Psychiatric News, Sept. 2, 2005)
• NEWS The case for caring coercion (Psychiatric Review)
• LETTER Treat mental illness before tragedy (Crosswinds Weekly, August 21, 2005)
• OP-ED Kendra's Law works and should be renewed (Albany Times Union, May 15, 2005)
• OPED Subway victim's legacy must not be allowed to die (Buffalo News, May 4, 2005)
• OPED Remembering Kendra (New York Post, April 18, 2005)
• NEWS Proposal would protect patients (Mt. Olive Chronicle, April 6, 2005)
• NEWS Bill would bring IOC law to Maine (New England Psychologist, April 2005)
• EDITORIAL Mandatory medication law is needed (Capital Weekly, March 28, 2005)
• NEWS Bill would force severely mentally ill to take meds (Capital Weekly, March 15, 2005)
• LETTER Baker Act reforms will bring savings (Florida Today, August 6, 2004)
• LETTER Mental health system cries for reform (Richmond Times Dispatch, August 3, 2004)
• EDITORIAL An alternative to helplessness (The Tampa Tribune, July 7, 2004)
• LETTER Stigma and public education about mental illness (Psychiatric Services, July 2004)
• LETTER Maryland's gap in treating the mentally ill (The Washington Post, June 17, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Alternative to Baker Act should be law; Bill enables medication of mentally ill (Ft. Myers News-Press, May 7, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Reform of law badly needed (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, April 24, 2004)
• LETTER Mental care tools (Sacramento Bee, April 23, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Short Takes (Charleston Daily Mail, March 6, 2004)
• LETTER Kendra's Law: A mother's thanks (New York Post, February 25, 2004)
• OPED Our right to remain mentally ill (Tampa Tribune, February 21, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Baker Act reform: Protect the vulnerable with changes in law (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, February 18, 2004)
• LETTER Reforms are coming (Tampa Tribune, February 16, 2004)
• LETTER 'Laura's Law' fills a gap for mentally ill who need help most (Orange County Register, February 15, 2004)
• EDITORIAL True help on mental illness (Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Florida's Baker Act needs reform (Miami Herald, February 12, 2004)
• LETTER Reform Baker Act (Miami Herald, February 11, 2004)
• LETTER Baker Act: Reform is overdue (Florida Times-Union, February 8, 2004)
• LETTER Baker Act: Help the mentally ill (Florida Times-Union, February 8, 2004)
• LETTER Baker Act: Reform is necessary (Florida Times-Union, February 7, 2004)
• LETTER Treatment gap in Maryland (The Washington Post, February 6, 2004)
• LETTER Baker Act Reform (Orlando Sentinel, February 5, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Mental health reform now (Florida Times-Union, February 4, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Sensible help (Orlando Sentinel, January 25, 2004)
• LETTER Untold story (Orlando Sentinel, January 15, 2004)
• LETTER Hope for mental illness (Huntsville Times, January 14, 2004)
• LETTER Courts' help is needed (Tampa Tribune, January 7, 2004)
• LETTER Reforms are needed (Tampa Tribune, January 5, 2004)
• OPED County needs to do more on behalf of its mentally ill (San Bernardino Sun, January 2, 2004)
• EDITORIAL Let judges help people before tragedies strike (Tampa Tribune, December 28, 2003)
• NEWS Out of the asylum, into the cell (The New York Times, November 2, 2003)
• NEWS A crisis ignored (The New York Post, October 28, 2003)
• NEWS Parents seeking Gregory's law (Burlington County Times, October 14, 2003)
• NEWS Leaving the mentally ill out in the cold (City Journal, Autumn 2003)
• NEWS Advocate: Prison no place for mentally ill (Arizona Daily Sun, September 3, 200
• OPED The killer and me (New York Post, August 4, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Mistreating the mentally ill (TownHall.com, July 31, 2003)
• OPED Commission's ommission (National Review, July 29, 2003)
• NEWS Advocates seek stricter law to deal with the mentally ill (Florida Today, July 18, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Reforms to Baker Act would benefit everyone (Florida Today, July 11, 2003)
• OPED As tragedies mount, proven solution is ignored (Orlando Sentinel, July 10, 2003)
• LETTER Prescription for tragedy (Orlando Sentinel, June 17, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Instead of psychiatric, care he got jail (Star Tribune, June 1, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Revise the Baker Act (Stuart News, April 27, 2003)
• OPED Florida sheriffs Ken Jenne and Donald Eslinger: Without reforms, problems mount (South Florida Sun Sentinel, April 21, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Avoiding a descent into crisis: Reform of Baker Act can help families and law enforcement (Sarasota Herald Tribune, April 20, 2003)
• LETTER Pat Webdale pleads with Floridians not to delay passage of Baker Act reform: Treat mentally ill (Miami Herald, April 20, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Change the Baker Act: A bill in the legislature offers a better way to deal with the mentally ill (Orlando Sentinel, April 12, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Reform the Baker Act (Miami Herald, April 11, 2003)
• OPED Florida's Baker Act fails mentally ill and their families (Tampa Tribune, April 6, 2003)
• OPED Shifting the responsibility of untreated mental illness out of the criminal justice system (by Tom Faust, Executive Director of the National Sheriffs' Association, in Corrections Today magazine, April 2003)
• OPED Treatment before tragedy [in Florida]: Lessons learned from [New York's] Kendra's Law (Tampa Tribune, March 15, 2003)
• EDITORIAL Mental health: Involuntary help (Florida Times Union, February 24, 2003)
• LETTER Baker act needs to be reformed (Daytona Beach News-Journal, February 23, 2003)
• NEWS N.D. families crusade for law change (The Forum, February 18, 2003)
• NEWS An insane way to treat crazies (The Miami Herald, Dec. 12, 2002)
• LETTER Immediate to Substantial (The Salt Lake Tribune, Dec. 8, 2002)
• LETTER Reform the Baker Act to Help Mentally Ill (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Dec. 4, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Reform the Baker Act (The St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 26, 2002)
• OP-ED Prisons and jails are no place for people with mental illness (The Idaho Statesman, Nov. 25, 2002)
• LETTER The mentally ill need help before crisis (The St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 17, 2002)
• LETTER Law needs repair (The St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 17, 2002)
• NEWS Law gives California counties commitment authority (Psychiatric News, Nov. 15, 2002)
• LETTER Treatment for mentally ill can prevent tragedy (Montgomery County Gazette, Nov. 7, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Followup: Laura's Law (The San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 2, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Laura's Law (The Times-Herald, Oct. 2, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Governor: Sign Laura's Law (The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 28, 2002)
• EDITORAL Mental health care bill deserves support (Oakland Tribune, Sept. 24, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Honoring Laura's legacy (The Los Angeles Times, Aug. 26, 2002)
• FEATURE Gray matter? A life's work examining mental disorders Brain diseases are a black-and-white issue for research psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, MD, who stakes out polemic positions on causes and treatments (American Medical News, August 19, 2002)
• EDITORIAL For the ill - For all of us (The Los Angeles Times, Aug. 2, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Pass "Laura's Law" (The San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2002)
• OPINION EDITORIAL Kendra's Law could help mentally ill inmates (The Buffalo News, July 28, 2002)
• FEATURE The going rate on shrinks: Big Pharma and the buying of psychiatry (The American Prospect, July 15, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Say yes to help: Mentally ill don't have to sink deeper into delusion; State Senate should restore AB 1421 and pass it (The San Jose Mercury News, July 8, 2002)
• EDITORIAL A tiny, and huge, change (The Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2002)
• OPINION EDITORIAL Pass AB 1421: Promote treatment, don't mandate tragedy (San Gabriel Valley Tribune, June 13, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Last boost on Laura's Law (The Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2002)
• EDITORIAL A vote to save lives (The San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 2002)
• OPED Mentally ill can be unaware they're sick: Should the mentally ill be allowed to refuse to take their medication? (The Boston Globe, June 9, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Helping people off the streets: Shield the sick, and society (The Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2002)
• COLUMN Fatal shooting by cop renews angry debate (Chicago Tribune, May 11, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Our opinion: Flexibility, funding are key (The State Journal-Register, Springfield, Illinois, May 5, 2002)
• NEWS FEATURE Prelude to a death: Those who watched Marie Elise West's manic spiral saw a collision coming. But under existing California law, there was little they could do to stop it. (Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Why it's called 'Laura's Law' (The San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Failing the mentally ill (City Journal, April 30, 2004)
• OPED Failing the mentally ill: New York State’s richly funded mental-health system needs fixing (City Journal, April 30, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Helping people off the streets: An Rx against violence (The Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Update the Baker Act (The Ledger, April 5, 2002)
• OPED Two sheriffs: Reform Florida's mental-health law (Orlando Sentinel, April 4, 2002)
• ARTICLE Severe psychiatric disorders may be increasing (Psychiatric Times, April 2002)
• OPED Betting on the right horse to save lives: The case of Andrea Yates (UPI, March 15, 2002)
• OPED Committing crime is fastest ticket to treatment of mental illness (Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 10, 2002)
• EDITORIAL The voices finally stop. But at what cost? (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Feb. 3, 2002)
• COLUMN Victims of laws that were meant to save them (The Plain Dealer, Jan. 20, 2002)
• LETTER Assisted treatment for mentally ill (Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jan. 7, 2002)
• EDITORIAL Wishes for an uneasy world (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2, 2002)
• NEWS Mental health advocates hope schizophrenic man's death will draw attention to quirks of treatment laws (Daytona Beach News-Journal, Dec. 26, 2001)
• OPED Reform Baker Act to save lives (Miami Herald, Dec. 10, 2001)
• OPED Law officers aren't mental health professionals (Orlando Sentinal, Dec. 6, 2001)
• NEWS Washington's best and brightest: E. Fuller Torrey, psychiatrist (Washingtonian, Dec. 2001)
• NEWS Mentally ill need care, find prison: Without treatment, many cycle in and out of jail (Washington Post, Nov. 25, 2001)
• OPED Connecticut's laws claim another life (Hartford Courant, Nov. 2, 2001)
• EDITORIAL Sheltering the vulnerable (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 22, 2001)
• EDITORIAL Mind the mentally ill (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 6, 2001)
• NEWS Anosognosia keeps patients from realizing they’re ill (Psychiatric News, Sept. 7, 2001)
• NEWS Committing a loved one can be the best medicine (Psychiatric News, Sept. 7, 2001)
• OPED Kevin's Law would help treat mental illness, prevent tragedy (Detroit Free Press, Aug. 28, 2001)
• EDITORIAL Kevin's Law - Mental health bill is prudent response to tragedy (Lansing State Journal, Aug. 24, 2001)
• NEWS Brother of 'Kendra's Law' announced; Advocacy groups might support idea (Mental Health Report, Aug. 17, 2001)
• NEWS Mental health law to be unveiled: Bill stems from tragic death in a bus station (Detroit Free Press, Aug. 17, 2001)
• OPED Mentally ill and in jail (The Washington Post, Aug. 16, 2001)
• NEWS Book review: Model law for assisted treatment (Wisconsin Lawyer, Aug. 2001)
• NEWS Assisted outpatient treatment: Review of New York case law - and beyond (Correctional Mental Health Report, July/Aug. 2001)
• NEWS Barriers to treatment for individuals with schizophrenia and manic depression (Paradigm Magazine, Summer 2001)
• EDITORIAL A case against liberty (Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2001)
• EDITORIAL Make Chris take his 'meds' (Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2001)
• OPED Courts must be able to order help (Baltimore Sun, March 1, 2001)
• EDITORIAL California's 30-year failure to confront mental illness (San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 18, 2001)
• NEWS Families lobby to force treatment, Fight polarizes mental health community (USA Today, Feb. 12, 2001)
• NEWS Families wait on the brink for help (USA Today, Feb. 12, 2001)
• EDITORIAL New policy needed for the mentally ill (The Reno Gazette-Journal, Dec. 13, 2000)
• OPED Not treating mental illness is dangerous and deadly (The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 27, 2000)
• OPED 'No vacancy' faces mentally ill (The Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 6, 2000)
• EDITORIAL Capitol's crunch time (The San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 28, 2000)
• OPED Mental illness is a family tragedy (The Philadelphia Daily News, Aug. 7, 2000)
• OPED Let us treat them now (The Washington Post, Aug. 1, 2000)
• OPED Why sit by when we can help? (The Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2000)
• OPED Sen. Burton's actions will only hurt the mentally ill (The San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 2000)
• EDITORIAL Sometimes 'coercion' is a virtue (The Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2000)
• OPED Update in mental health laws needed; Earlier intervention could prevent many tragedies (Star Tribune, June 30, 2000)
• OPED Forum: Ban 'lack of treatment' crimes (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 14, 2000)
• OPED Legislature had chance to help, but failed Lenny Ray Cornia (The Salt Lake City Tribune, Apr. 16, 2000)
• OPED Dix's bind begins in Washington (The Raleigh News and Observer, Apr. 2, 2000)
• OPED Florida's mentally ill left out in the cold  (Orlando Sentinel, Mar. 23, 2000)
• OPED State's failure to protect its own (Baltimore Sun, Mar. 16, 2000)
• OPED Kendra's law fearmongers  (The New York Post, Feb. 25, 2000)
• OPED It's time we help California's helpless  (The San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 16, 2000)
• OPED Federal neglect of the mentally ill   (The Washington Post, Dec. 30, 1999)
• OPED Can psychiatry learn from tuberculosis treatment? (Psychiatric Services, Nov. 1999)
• ARTICLE Reinventing mental health care (City Journal, Autumn 1999)
• OPED Treatment by cooperation  (The Washington Post, Aug. 19, 1999)
• EDITORIAL "Rights" leave mentally ill families in legal limbo (The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Aug. 8, 1999)
• OPED We've tried mandatory treatment, and it works (City Journal, Summer 1999)
• NEWS Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill  (Congressional Record, July 12, 1999)
• OPED Deinstitutionalization hasn't worked (The Washington Post, July 9, 1999)
• OPED How freedom punishes the severely mentally ill (USA Today, June 7, 1999)
• OPED The cost of madness on the streets (Chicago Tribune, June 7, 1999)
• OPED Taking Issue – Combating stigma by providing treatment  (Psychiatric Services, June 1999)
• STUDY MacArthur coercion studies: A Wisconsin perspective, by Dr. Darold Treffert (Marquette Law Review, Summer 1999)
• OPED Mental illness causes Pataki and Silver to agree (Albany Times Union, May 30, 1999)
• OPED A right to mental illness?  (New York Post, May 28, 1999)
• OPED ...And getting treatment shouldn't be this hard  (Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1999)
• NEWS Medical advances can outpace doctors; Retraining not enforced, critics say (The Washington Times, Mar. 21, 1999)
• NEWS Trapped between law and madness (Insight Magazine, Sept. 14, 1998)
• NEWS The devil in deinstitutionalizing (Insight Magazine, Sept. 14, 1998)
• NEWS Point of view: Serious medicine can deter rampages (Raleigh News & Observer, Aug. 9, 1998)
• OPED Why deinstitutionalization turned deadly (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 4, 1998)
• OPED We need to ask again: Why do severely mentally ill go untreated? (Boston Globe, Aug. 1, 1998)
• OPED Violent fantasies (National Review, July 20, 1998)
• NEWS Brain storm - Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey took schizophrenia off the couch and into the lab (Washington City Paper, Jan. 16, 1998)
• NEWS Madness in the streets (Salon Magazine, Jan. 1997)
• OPED Stop the madness (Wall Street Journal, July 18, 1996)
• OPED Toward rational commitment laws: Committed to Help (National Journal, Jan. 29, 1996)
• OPED Uncivil liberties (Vancouver Sun, July 22, 1993)

Surviving Schizophrenia : A Manual for Families, Consumers and Providers

5th edition- order today!
by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.
576 pages
5th edition (March 28, 2006)
Collins; ISBN: 0060842598

(Often seen as a comprehensive schizophrenia textbook.)

"A comprehensive, realistic, and compassionate approach... Should be of tremendous value to anyone who must confront these questions." - Psychology Times

"E. Fuller Torrey is a brilliant writer. There is no one writing on psychology today whom I would rather read." - Los Angeles Times

READ AN EXCERPT ON DELUSIONS ...

  The Insanity Offense; How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers its Citizens rs

   Order Today!
   by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.
   Norton; ISBN: 978-0-393-06658-6576

   "E. Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist who cares for patients with schizophrenia and manic-depression, is to my mind the doctor nearest in

    character to an ancient Hebrew prophet. In The Insanity Offense, he describes the grim consequences -- in death, violence and suffering --

    of laws that, beginning in the late 1960s, released the seriously mentally ill from the oversight of state mental-health services and

    permitted them to wander away from the treatment and protection they desperately needed." -- Dr. Paul McHugh, The Wall Street Journal

CRAZY: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness

Order today!
by Pete Earley
374 pages
April 2006
G.P. Putnam’s Sons; ISBN0-399-15313-6

“A book as riveting to read as it is important it be read. Pete Earley uses his son’s experiences to take readers on a harrowing personal journey, exposing how public policies and laws make it difficult for relatives to help loved ones with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and how today’s failed system often relegates people overcome by these no-fault conditions to jails and prisons, instead of to treatment. Many of the tragic situations he uncovers were preventable. Maybe, with this book, they can be.” – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and Nancy Domenici

Overcoming Depression
by Demitri Papolos, M.D., and Janice Papolos

432 pages, 3rd edition

February 1997

HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060927828

"Helpful and practical information for depressed persons and their families." - The Los Angeles Times

Out of the Shadows : Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis
by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.

244 pages

December 1996

John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471161616

"Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger." - The New York Times Book Review

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