1/29/14. Sally Satel reviews E. Fuller Torrey's book "American Psychosis." Since the 1960's, political liberals and conservatives have contributed to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients. Some liberal ideologues have helped the severe mentally ill kill and die with their rights intact. Some conservative ideologues, authors of such classics "The Myth of Mental Illness" have defunded hospitals treatment.
Some liberal ideologues were too optimistic about the benefits of community mental health treatments.
Some conservative ideologues were too pessimistic about the benefits of inpatient mental health treatments.
Many liberals and conservatives remain skeptical that severe mental illness is a disease.
Until we have biological tests of such mental maladies, the horror will continue.
http://www.aei.org/article/health/book-review-american-psychosis-by-e-fuller-torrey/
Some liberal ideologues were too optimistic about the benefits of community mental health treatments.
Some conservative ideologues were too pessimistic about the benefits of inpatient mental health treatments.
Many liberals and conservatives remain skeptical that severe mental illness is a disease.
Until we have biological tests of such mental maladies, the horror will continue.
http://www.aei.org/article/health/book-review-american-psychosis-by-e-fuller-torrey/
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