Reviews of Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

Happy Halloween everyone!  Please don't dress up as a psychiatric patient, it's not funny, and depicting people with illnesses in harsh ways is...harsh and insensitive, promoting stigma and fear.In addition to Halloween --and yes there will be candy at my house tonight --- tomorrow, November 1st, is the official publication date of our new book,Committed : The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care.  The printer got a little excited and released the books to Amazon (and maybe some libraries) a bit early, but our hard-working publicist, Gene Taft, at the Johns Hopkins University Press has been trying to keep things under wrap and he's done a fine job.As the publication date has approached, there have been some reviews, and I'd like to list them in one place.Dr. Damon Tweedy wrote a wonderful review in last Sunday's Washington Post:The Heated Battle Over When to Commit a Patient Involuntarily to Psychiatric CareDr. Rebeccah Twersky-Kengmana wrote another terrific review inClinical Psychiatry Newscalled"Committed Takes a Non--Patronizing Approach to Involuntary Care."Blogger Kazen in Japan writes for Always Doing --Because Thinking About Reading isn't Enough. I do hope you'll read theAlways Doing reviewbecause it really captured what I wanted the reader to get from the book.  (Feel free to also purchase the book).And one of our colleagues, whom I believe wishes to remain nameless, wrote the nicest review on a Facebook page, so I'm stealing it hear, namelessly:&n...
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