John F. Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act, despite its good intentions, further complicated the plight of the mentally ill in the United States. E. Fuller Torrey, author of American Psychosis, explains the act’s ramifications on the mentally ill population and JFK’s presidency. http://global.oup.com/academic/produc...

E. Fuller Torrey is Executive Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Chevy Chase, MD, founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

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