Bedlam an intimate journey into America's mental health crisis
A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States. When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming rate,...
| Main Authors: | Rosenberg, Kenneth Paul (Author), DuLong, Jessica (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- How it all began
- Me-too medicines
- Dungeons and dragons : criminalizing mental illness
- Throwaway people
- "My son died with his civil liberties intact"
- The kindness of strangers
- Early and effective intervention
- Strength in (small) numbers, or, America is waking up
- Going home
- Practical advice for persons with SMI and their families.