Mental Illness

Editor Mary E. Williams has compiled several fascinating essays that debate various issues regard mental illness. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate whether mental illness is a serious problem, how society should address it, how it impacts the young, and what treatments are effective. Are the mentally ill denied access to medicines? Is involuntary psychiatric treatment unethical? Do depressed teens need antidepressants? The answers to these questions and many more are found within this book.