Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill, Edition 2

Dr. Torrey is a clinical and research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He holds degrees from Princeton (BA), McGill (MD), and Stanford (MA in anthropology) universities and trained in psychiatry at the latter. During the 1970s, when many of the events described in this book were taking place, he worked at the National Institute of Mental Health. He is currently the Associate Director for Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has authored or co-authored 20 other books, including Out of the Shadows, The Insanity Offense, American Psychosis, Surviving Schizophrenia, and Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill. The Roots of Treason, his biography of Ezra Pound, was nominated as one of the five best biographies of 1983 by the National Book Critics Circle.