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Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System
Author(s): Rosemary Radford Ruether (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 3 Dec. 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780800696511
- ISBN-13: 0800696514
Book Description
In telling the story of her son’s thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, Rosemary Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by “idealistic reformers” and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. Ruether asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness “if we really cared.”
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About the Author
Rosemary Radford Ruether is Visiting Scholar at the Claremont Graduate University and School of Theology. She is the author of numerous influential works in feminist theology and the history of theology and the editor of many others. Her recent works with Fortress Press include the edited volume Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect (2007) and Many Forms of Madness: A Family’s Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System (2010).
