Description: Deeply troubled teenagers spend time in a locked psychiatric ward. They are out of control--violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Twenty years later, a handful of them are thriving. In a series of interviews that began during their hospitalizations and ended years later, these teens tell their stories.
Brief description: Stuart T. Hauser is Senior Scientist at the Judge Baker Children's Center and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Review Quotes: This is one of the most important books on recovery from teenage mental illness that I have ever seen. Out of the Woods shows powerfully that the question of who succeeds and who fails to recover is a question not for biochemical analysis and drug treatment, but for dedicated therapeutic faith and understanding. The more attention this powerful book gets, the better.--Joanne Greenberg, author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden