Foreword / E. Fulller Torrey
Preface : how I got involved
Introduction : overview of everything
Infamous mentally ill adults who went off treatment
section 1. The insane consequences
1. Human consequences of ignoring the seriously mentally ill
2. Criminal justice consequences of ignoring the seriously mentally ill
3. Financial consequences
section 2. Mental health vs. mental illness : what's the difference and why does it matter?
4. What serious mental illness is not
5. What serious mental illness is and how that should drive policy
6. What science tells us about treatment that should be reflected in policy
section 3. The mental health industry
7. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
8. The mental health nonprofit complex and its critics
section 4. The industry is in denial
9. The industry fights efforts to reduce violence
10. The industry fights life-saving involuntary interventions
11. The industry fights access to hospitals, medications, and electroconvulsive therapy
section 5. Diverting funds to what doesn't work
12. The industry diverts funds to programs that lack evidence and don't help
13. The industry diverts funds to irrelevant stigma programs
section 6. Failing the seriously mentally ill
14. Federal policies that fail the seriously ill
15. Court decisions that failed the seriously ill
section 7. Where do we go?
Appendix A. Serious mental illness defined
Appendix B. Studies on violence and mental illness
Appendix C. Studies correlating anosognosia with violence
Appendix D. Studies on Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) in New York and elsewhere
Appendix E. HIPAA reforms.
