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By E. Fuller Torrey. 362 pp. New York, HarperCollins, 1992. $25. ISBN 0-06-016812-9.

The psychiatrist who ventures beyond the consulting room or hospital ward takes on a considerable challenge. Our training does not automatically equip us to make well-reasoned judgments in other disciplines. The careful writer knows this, yet with adequate familiarization and scholarly safeguards, he or she can often enrich a dialogue by the use of the special perspective that experience in our field provides. If this is done poorly, however, without consideration of the hazards, the results can fall below acceptable standards.

Dr. Torrey, who has written in the past on the care of the chronically mentally ill, aims in this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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