No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

"No doubt if everyone were to read" this personal and social history of mental illness in America "the world would change" (New York Times Book Review).

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 loved ones, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author Ron Powers limns our fears and myths about men...