This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,

Kentucky.

Dr E. Fuller Tori is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar

disorder he is the executive director of the Stanley Medical

Research Institute the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center and a professor of

psychiatry at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences.

He was educated at Princeton University, McGill University, and Stanford University School of Medicine.

He is the author of over 20 books.

His latest book is American Psychosis,

how the federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system.

As he began that book, he wrote these words. I don't know why other people write books,

but for me it is a selfish enterprise.

I write to answer questions that are bothering me. It's a good thing that he wrote this book

and I'm glad to know that this question bothered him. I'm looking forward to this conversation with

Dr. Tori. Dr. Tori, your book, American Psychosis, How the Federal Government

destroyed the mental illness treatment system is about more than that subtitle, but it begins with one of the most interesting stories from American history that points to the intersection of the personal and the political.

You begin with the story of the Kennedy family.

It does indeed Dr. Mallard, and that's really the beginning of

how things changed radically for the mentally ill in the United States.

What the Kennedy family had is they had a daughter, Rosemary, who was mildly

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