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Read Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Failed the Mentally Ill

Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in hardcover and ebook.

"The Most Important Book on How to Reform the Mental Health System"

This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry’s most relentless critic presents a new and controversial explanation as to why—in spite of spending $147 billion annually—140,000 seriously mentally ill are homeless, 390,000 are incarcerated, and even educated, tenacious, and caring people can’t get treatment for their mentally ill loved ones. 

DJ Jaffe blames the mental health industry and the government for shunning the 10 million adults who are the most seriously mentally ill—mainly those who suffer from schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder—and, instead, working to improve “mental wellness” in 43 million others, many of whom are barely symptomatic. Using industry and government documents, scientific journals, and anecdotes from his thirty years of advocacy, Jaffe documents the insane consequences of these industry-driven policies: psychiatric hospitals for the seriously ill are still being closed; involuntary commitment criteria are being narrowed to the point where laws now require violence rather than prevent it; the public is endangered; and the mentally ill and their families are forced to suffer. 

Insane Consequences proposes smart, compassionate, affordable, and sweeping reforms designed to send the most seriously ill to the head of the line for services rather than to jails, shelters, prisons, and morgues. It lays out a road map to spend less on mental “health” and more on mental “illness”––replace mission creep with mission control and return the mental health system to a focus on the most seriously ill. It is not money that is lacking; it’s leadership. 

This book is a must-read for anyone who works in the mental health industry or cares about the mentally ill, violence, homelessness, incarceration, or public policy. 

Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in hardcover and ebook.

Great reviews below from top advocates and media: 

• Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, author, Surviving Schizophrenia
• Glenn Close, Actress 
• Sally Satel, MD, Yale University School of Medicine 
• Pete Earley, Bestselling Author of CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness 
• Tom Dart, Cook County (Chicago) Sheriff 
• Ron Powers, Pulitzer prizewinner and author of No One Cares about Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America 
• Susan Adams, senior editor, Forbes 
• Norman Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute 
• Rich Lowry, editor, National Review 
• Allen Frances, former chair of the DSM-IV Task Force, former President, American Psychiatric Association, author of Saving Normal 
• Rael Jean Isaac, coauthor, Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill 
• Xavier Amador, Author of, I am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!, former Board of Directors, NAMI 
• Charlie Rangel, former Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY) 
• Eleanor Clift, Washington Correspondent, Daily Beast 
• John Snook, Executive Director, Treatment Advocacy Center 
• Chief (Ret.) Michael Biasotti, Contributor: International Association Chiefs of Police policy on handling of the mentally ill, and Fellow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security 
• Dominic A. Sisti, PhD, Director, The Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care, 
• Robert Paul Liberman, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
• Liza Long, author of The Price of Silence: A Mom’s Perspective on Mental Illness
• Steven B. Seager, MD, producer/director of the award-winning documentary Shattered Families: The Collapse of America’s Mental Health System, and author of Behind the Gates of Gomorrah
• Mia St. John, mental illness advocate and five-time World Boxing Council champion Natasha Tracy, author of Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar Anthony Daniels, Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. 

Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in hardcover and ebook.

 

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(November 2017)