02707cam a2200373 i 4500 1164581025 TxAuBib 20170518120000.0 161020s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016046019 9780316341172 hardback 0316341177 hardback (OCoLC)951764773 DNLM/DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA YDXCP BDX OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCA YDX OCLCO NLM OCLCO ON8 JAS FM0 IHX RB0 TxAuBib rda Powers, Ron, author. No one cares about crazy people : the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America / Ron Powers. First edition. New York : Hachette Books, [2017] ©2017. xxi, 360 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-348) and index. Membrane -- What is schizophrenia? -- Regulars -- Bedlam, before and beyond -- Eugenics: weeding out the mad -- "A more normal world" -- "When they were young" -- Madness and genius -- "If only, if only, if only--" -- Chaos and heartbreak -- The great unraveler -- Surcease -- Debacle -- "Hey fam--" -- Antipsychotics -- "Something unexplainable" -- We have done pitifully little about mental illness" -- "Primoshadino" -- Red Sox 17, Yankees 1 -- Insanity and Icarus -- Someone cares about crazy people. "From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted. Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers's beloved son Kevin--spirited, endearing, and gifted--who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic. A blend of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs ending with a consideration of where we might go from here, this is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been misunderstood"--Provided by publisher. 20170518. Schizophrenia History. Mental health services History. Mental health services. Mentally ill. TXKIP