E. Fuller Torrey is a noted schizophrenia researcher. He is a guest researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Neuroscience Center at St. Elizabeths Hospital. He is an active advisor and advocate for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). Dr. Torrey’s sister Rhoda has schizophrenia.

Dr. Torrey is the executive director of the Stanley Foundation, which funds mental-illness research. He also maintains a brain bank, which solicits donations of "Fresh, high-quality, schizophrenic brains" and provides the same to researchers.

Dr. Torrey is the subject of some controversy. He is opposed by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS); Thomas Szasz, a libertarian psychiatrist who asserts that mental illness did not exist; British psychiatrist R. D. Laing who suggested schizophrenia may offer a chance to grow and Paul Krassner editor of The Realist .

Notable Books

• The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present 400 pages (January 2002) Rutgers University Press; ISBN 0813530032
• Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers (4th Edition) ISBN 0060959193
• The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths ISBN 1929636016
• Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers ISBN 0465086632
• Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture ISBN 1929636008

External links

• Biography
• NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
• Washington's Best and Brightest: Roots of Mental Illness - E. Fuller Torrey, Psychiatrist From The Washingtonian