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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System?

2. Who wrote Haunted Asylums: Stories of the Damned; Inside the Haunted Prisons, Wards, and Crazy Houses?

3. Who wrote the expose titled "Bedlam 1946: Most U.S. Mental Hospitals Are a Shame and a Disgrace"?

4. In what school grade was the author when The NeverEnding Story was released?

5. Where was Payton Leutner stabbed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are first-generation antipsychotics and why are they less prescribed than second-generation antipsychotics?

2. What is Cotard's delusion? How has it affected the author?

3. When did the author develop PTSD? What had caused it?

4. Describe the Payton Leutner stabbing. When did it take place and who was involved?

5. How does the author describe her first psychotic symptoms while in her senior year at Stanford?

6. What are the three major components of treatment for schizophrenics in psychiatric crisis, according to the American Psychiatric Association's Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia, second edition?

7. How does the author describe her obsession with The NeverEnding Story?

8. What is "CBT"?

9. What was the outcome in the trial regarding Payton Leutner's stabbing?

10. How did the author's literary tastes change when she developed PTSD?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the topic of mental health and the criminal justice system. How many individuals are currently incarcerated in the U.S that suffer from mental illness? How do these individuals receive treatment? Is this system adequate? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Examine and discuss the author's relationships with her parents and sibling growing up. Would you consider that they had healthy relationships? Why or why not? How, if at all, have those relationships changed in response to the author's diagnoses?

Essay Topic 3

Define and discuss Capgras delusion. What are the symptoms of this delusion? How has it affected the author of the book? What treatments can be employed to assist those with Capgras delusion?

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