The Day the Voices Stopped: A Memoir of Madness and Hope (Book Review)

For decades, the late Ken Steele endured the horrors of schizophrenia. Now, with freelance writer Claire Berman's help, he offers readers a brilliant look into the darkest of places. Unfortunately, some of Steele's worst experiences occurred in psychiatric hospitals, where he was isolated, overmedicated, assaulted and ignored. Not since Clifford Beers' A Mind that Found Itself, published in 1908, has there been such a scathing rebuke of America's psychiatric care system. The recollections of a paranoid schizophrenic with a history of lying are questionable, but if even half are true, then things have not improved much since Beers' time.