American psychosis
by E. Fuller Torrey · first published 2014
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"In 1963, President John F. Kennedy described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as "deinstitutionalization," continues to impact mental health care. Fifty years after Kennedy's speech, the author provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. He draws on his own first-hand account of the creation and launch of the program, extensive research, one-on-one interviews with major figures i
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…returned to their homes and families during the first wave of CMHA, and instead the younger people with very serious mental illness and no support system), were. This is very well documented in the book American Psychosis by Torrey if you're interested in the facts.
on “What Killed My Sister? ” ↗American Psychosis is an excellent book on this topic. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/health/american-psychosis-...
on “What San Francisco Says About America” ↗…https://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-m... https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s... https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/deinstitutional... https://www.amazon.com/American-Psychosis-Government-Destroy... "Many times individuals who really do require intensive psychiatric care find themselves homeless or more and more in prison," Sisti says. "Much of our mental health care now for…
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