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“Confronting Anosognosia” – Watch the Workshop Online

Our workshop on anosognosia and helping the estimated 40-50% of people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia who experience it was one of the best-attended sessions at NAMI’s recent convention in Washington DC. Now even those who missed the convention can see “Confronting Anosognosia: How to Help Those Who Don’t Know They’re Sick,” featuring Amador Xavier, PhD, the nation’s leading clinical expert on lack of insight in mental illness, along with a family member and a consumer.

Heard on the Radio

dr._torrey_bio_pic_smaller_versionDr. E. Fuller Torrey, founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, discusses the  importance of Assisted Outpatient Treatment for people with severe mental illnesses on the CBC Radio program As It Happens.

NPR affiliate KQED in San Francisco broadcast a segment on Laura's Law that included an interview featuring Mark Leary, deputy chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. Leary provides an exceptionally clear explanation and strong endorsement of Assisted Outpatient Treatment.

How Does YOUR State Rank?

Americans with severe mental illnesses are three times more likely to be imprisoned vs. hospitalized, according to a study by The Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs Association. Find out where your state ranks in criminalizing mental illness.

Find your state: 50-state table.

Read the study: "More Mentally Ill Persons are in Jails and Prisons than Hospitals: A Survey of the States"


Documentary: When Medicine Got it Wrong

Treatment Advocacy Center board members E. Fuller Torrey, MD, and Richard Lamb, MD, are featured in the documentary film When Medicine Got it Wrong airing on PBS stations around the country. The film is about the 1970s grassroots movement that challenged myths about mental illness. 

New Study: 65% of Severely Mentally Ill Inmates Untreated
April 7, 2010

Two-thirds of Michigan prisoners with severe mental illness get no treatment behind bars, a University of Michigan study says. Brant Fries, principal investigator of the study, informed TAC the study recommends the use of a one-hour screening method to indentify mentally ill inmates as they are processed.
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  • I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help! By Xavier Amador, Ph.D.
    • A must-read to learn about anosognosia - the lack of insight that causes people to think they are not ill when they are not.
     
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