On Torrey’s career in mental health advocacy
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2013 · Education
The experience of mental health patients remains largely unknown to those outside of the mental illness treatment system. E. Fuller Torrey, author of American Psychosis, details his own experience working in state mental health facilities, and how it led him to pursue mental health advocacy. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/american-psychosis-9780199988716 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. © Oxford University Press
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