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A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Berkley
April 2007
On Sale: April 3, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 0425213897
EAN: 9780425213896
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written
extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was
only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke
into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to
mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling
look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who
suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions
instead of treatment, in the "revolving doors" between
hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large
numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an
experience little better than the horrors of a century ago.
Earley takes us directly into that experience-and into that
of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for
a better way.
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