No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America

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Ron Powers

No One Cares About Crazy People

My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America

Ron Powers

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Hachette Books
26 June 2018

Memoirs; Health psychology

""Extraordinary and courageous . . . No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would change.""---New York Times Book Review

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers' critically acclaimed narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.

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.

By: Ron Powers
Imprint: Hachette Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 205mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 359g
ISBN: 9780316341134
ISBN 10: 0316341134
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 26 June 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. He is the co-author of Flags of our Fathers and True Compass--both #1 New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestsellers. His biography of Mark Twain--Mark Twain: A Life--was also a New York Times bestseller. He lives with his wife Honoree Fleming, Ph.D., in Castleton, Vermont.

Reviews for No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Powers (Mark Twain: A Life, 2005, etc.) presents two searing sagas: an indictment of mental health care in the United States and the story of his two schizophrenic sons.... This hybrid narrative, enhanced by the author's considerable skills as a literary stylist, succeeds on every level. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Extraordinary and courageous...I'm not sure I've ever read anything that handles the decline of one's children with such openness and searing, stumbling honesty...[Powers] writes with fierce hope and fierce purpose to persuade the world to pay attention. No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would change. - Ron Suskind, New York Times Book Review