Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley
A journalistic investigation into the criminalization of America's mentally ill describes the author's battle with the shortcomings of the mental health system and the Miami-Dade County jail after his son was declared bipolar.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Putnam
- Year
- 2006
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Mental health systemCriminalization of mental illnessFamily struggles with mental illness
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2007)
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