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.
Jay Neugeboren has published seven novels, two short story collections, and two memoirs, including 1997's acclaimed Imagining Robert, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His stories and essays have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and have been reprinted in more than fifty anthologies. He has won numerous awards for his work, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
"Transforming Madness is the most uplifting, engaging, and informative story about the good news related to helping people with severe mental illness that I have ever read."—Dr. William A. Anthony, Director, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
390 pp.6 x 9
9780520228757$30.95|Paper
May 2001