About the Book
In Imagining Robert Jay Neugeboren told the sad deeply personal often harrowing story of one man and one family's struggle with chronic mental illness. Now he presents an overview of the entire field: a clear-eyed articulate comprehensive survey of our mental health care system's shortcomings and of new effective proven approaches that make real differences in the lives of millions of Americans afflicted with severe mental illness. A book for general readers and professionals alike Transforming Madness is at once a critique a message of hope and recovery and a call to action. Filled with dramatic stories it shows us the many ways in which people who have suffered the long-term ravages of psychiatric disorders have reclaimed full and viable lives.