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E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. He is president of the Treatment Advocacy Center and Associate Director for Laboratory Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute, which supports research on schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. His work at the Stanley Medical Research Institute includes participating in ongoing collaborative research on viruses and other infectious agents as a cause of these diseases. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law.
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From 1976 to 1985, he was on the clinical staff of St. Elizabeths Hospital, specializing in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders. From 1988 to 1992, Dr. Torrey directed a study of identical twins with schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. His research has explored viruses as a possible cause of these disorders and he has carried out research in Ireland and Papua New Guinea.
Dr. Torrey was educated at Princeton University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude), McGill University School of Medicine (M.D.), and Stanford University (M.A. in Anthropology), and trained in psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He practiced general medicine in Ethiopia for two years as a Peace Corps physician, in the South Bronx in an O.E.O. Health Center, and in Alaska in the Indian Health Service. From 1970 to 1975, he was a special assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
He is the author of 20 books and more than 200 lay and professional papers. Some of his books have been translated into Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
Dr. Torrey has appeared on national radio and television (outlets like NPR, Oprah, 20/20, 60 Minutes, and Dateline) and has written for many newspapers. He received two Commendation Medals by the U.S. Public Health Service, a 1984 Special Families Award from NAMI, a 1991 National Caring Award, in 1999 received a research award from the International Congress of Schizophrenia and a humanitarian award from NARSAD, and a 2005 tribute included in NAMI's 25th Anniversary Celebratory Donor Wall. Born in Utica, New York, in 1937, he is married with two children.
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BOOKS BY E. FULLER TORREY, M.D.
PRAISE FOR DR. TORREY AND HIS BOOKS
““I think if you look at the long arc of his accomplishment, he's been the indispensable man. We simply wouldn't be where we are in services, in treatment, in research, if he had not been willing to stand up and tell the truth.” |
The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
"Important and provocative." - Dr. Gerald Grob, psychiatric historian
Surviving Schizophrenia : A Manual for Families, Consumers and Providers
"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
"My son is alive and thriving today largely because of Dr. E. Fuller Torrey's books and activities on behalf of the severely mentally ill. Six years ago, Dr. Torrey's third edition of Surviving Schizophrenia was the first book I read on the subject. Our family was in crisis after my oldest son had his first psychotic break. Dr. Torrey's practical, sound, humane advice was godsent information. ... You cannot beat this book's wise counsel. In one place, you can find information on almost every aspect of the illness. ... This is the first book that I would give anyone who needs to understand schizophrenia." - an Amazon.com reader from Davis, Ca.
Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture
"E. Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist widely regarded as one of the most important experts on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, has written about Hollywood’s fascination with the theories of Sigmund Freud. In Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud’s Theory on American Thought and Culture, he writes that widespread adoption of Freudian perspectives in films after WWII was related to the trend for Hollywood screenwriters, directors and producers to be in psychoanalysis themselves." - The Tyee, May 11, 2005
"A deeply felt . . . and provocatively written book." - New England Journal of Medicine
"Solidly researched and lucidly written. . . . Dr. Torrey presents us with a remarkable and frequently dismal history of the means by which the assumptions of Freudian theory have been mangled, embellished and misapplied by their most forceful advocates even as they have been insinuated into the vocabulary and institutions of American society." - The Washington Times
“One of Dr. Torrey's greatest attributes is that he is way ahead of his time ... ahead of science.” |
Out of the Shadows : Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis
"Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger." - The New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames." - Phil Donahue
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