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In the shadows of mental illness there are many faces.

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

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"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

"If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows."
-- New York Daily News

"An important book . . . timely and very well written."
--The New England

Journal of Medicine

"Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"Moving and vivid....Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader."
-- Laurie Flynn

Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

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Title Out of the Shadows
Author E. Fuller Torrey
Binding Paperback
Pages 256
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date 1998-02-26
ISBN 9780471245322 / 0471245321
Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
Dimensions 9.24 x 6.32 x 0.69 in (23.47 x 16.05 x 1.75 cm)
Library of Congress Catalog Number 96007716
Dewey Decimal Code 362.209

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New York Times, 07/12/1998, Page 32

About the author

E. FULLER TORREY, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at the Neuroscience Center of the National Institute of Mental Health. He is also the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia, which has been described as the "bible" of the mentally ill and their families.

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