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Problems in the field persist. Yet—with appropriate use of new psychiatric drugs plus improved psychotherapeutic techniquesin our lifetime we’ve seen more than 800,000 patients freed from the warehouses of state mental hospitals.

This new volume is a compelling chronicle of how we have advanced from abysmal attempts to deal with the mentally ill to the prospect of hope, relief, and even cure.

 

ISBN 978-1-46111-207-5, U.S. $14.99, Canada $15.99, 311 pp. Available from Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon

 

Published by Create Space

FROM MADHOUSE TO MENTAL HEALTH

by Harvey J Widroe, M.D., with Ron Kenner—Follows the (U.S./International) triple award-winning Diary of a Medical Student: Hospital of Horrors (Widroe with Kenner).

www.diaryofamedicalstudent.com

Internationally-known psychiatrist Widroe has lectured widely and also authored a classic psychiatric text book. Now he gives eye-witness account to stunning mental health changes.