American Psychosis

 E. Fuller Torrey, American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (Oxford University Press, 2013). 

Today at least one-third of homeless individuals are seriously mentally ill, as are approximately 20 percent of those incarcerated, and public facilities are overrun by untreated individuals. An unflinching account of the history -- and present day failings -- of our mental health treatment system, American Psychosis is a rallying cry for the necessity of establishing better psychiatric care for our nation's most vulnerable. 

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Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy

 Eldar Shafir, The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2012). 

This collection examines the policy relevance of behavioral science to our social and political lives, to issues ranging from health, environment, and nutrition, to dispute resolution, implicit racism, and false convictions. The book illuminates the relationship between behavioral findings and economic analyses, and calls attention to what policymakers might learn from this vast body of groundbreaking work. 

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