Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System

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."

Author: Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 12/03/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780800696511

About the Author
Ruether, Rosemary Radford: -

Rosemary Radford Ruether was the author of numerous influential works in feminist theology and the history of theology. 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).

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