It made psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey sound extremist; he's a researcher in schizophrenia and bipolar disease, two mental illnesses with obvious biological roots (his sister has schizophrenia). He's head of the Stanley Institute: http://www.stanleyresearch.org/dnn/

He's looking for effective medical treatments instead of "Here, take these pills because I/society/somebody else says so and maybe you will feel better, but hopefully you won't be a problem to us anymore."