What’s a good book about the changes in psychiatric care over the last half century, particularly deinstitutionalization?
I’m looking for a good nonfiction book, because even after reading Jonathan Rosen’s massive The Best Minds, I still don’t feel I have a good hold on it.
Hopefully not only informative but highly readable.
Andrew Solomon addresses the field as well as any I’ve read and is upfront honest if something isn’t in his scope, with a thoroughness which often offers some direction as to whom and where to reach.
He’s pleasantly readable, especially considering the vast and at-times dark subject matter(s) he covers.
Recommended: *The Noonday Demon,* which I believe released in 2000.
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You might like Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender, which focuses on an undercover study of mental institutions in the 1970s that became one factor in deinstitutionalization.
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Andrew Solomon addresses the field as well as any I’ve read and is upfront honest if something isn’t in his scope, with a thoroughness which often offers some direction as to whom and where to reach.
He’s pleasantly readable, especially considering the vast and at-times dark subject matter(s) he covers.
Recommended: *The Noonday Demon,* which I believe released in 2000.
You might like Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender, which focuses on an undercover study of mental institutions in the 1970s that became one factor in deinstitutionalization.