Mental Illness
What causes mental illness? How should mental illness be treated? Is involuntary treatment for the mentally ill ethical? What are the issues surrounding violence and the mentally ill? These four queries are supported and debated by a fascinating collection of primary sources and essays. Viewpoints and counterpoints are provided so that readers can evaluate more than one perspective. Essay sources include Rachel V. Israeli, Margarita Tartakovsky, E. Fuller Torrey, and Sam Vaknin.
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Review: Mental Illness"Each volume in the Opposing Viewpoints series could serve as a model...not only providing access to a wide diversity of opinions, but also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Both shrill and moderate, the selections—by experts, policy makers, and concerned citizens—include complete articles and speeches, long book excerpts, and occasional cartoons and boxed quotations...all up to date and fully documented. The editing is intelligent and unobtrusive, organizing the material around substantive issues within the general debate. Brief introductions to each section and to each reading focus the questions raised and offer no slick answers."—Booklist
