Mad Among Us - by Gerald N Grob (Paperback)

The definitive history of mental health care in America, "Treatment of the Mentally Ill" by Gerald Grob, is a comprehensive one-volume account that recounts our various attempts to solve the ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present.

This book provides an indispensable reference and calls for a humane and balanced policy in the future.

With a focus on community care and treatment, Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to escalating numbers of severely and persistently mentally ill patients, while also highlighting the deterioration of these institutions under pressure from too many patients and too few resources.

Criticism of psychiatric techniques such as shock therapies, drugs, and lobotomies led to a new emphasis on community care, but this approach was ineffective for many mentally ill substance abusers.

Grob's history points the way to new solutions that will address these challenges and provide humane treatment for those in need.