America started a grand experiment in the 1960s:
deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were
very destructive: homelessness; a degradation of urban life;
increases in violent crime rates; increasing death rates for the
mentally ill. My Brother Ron tells the story of
deinstitutionalization from two points of view: what happened to
the author's older brother, part of the first generation of those
who became mentally ill after deinstitutionalization, and a
detailed history of how and why America went down this path. My
Brother Ron examines the multiple strands that came together to
create the perfect storm that was deinstitutionalization: a
well-meaning concern about the poor conditions of many state mental
hospitals; a giddy optimism by the psychiatric profession in the
ability of new drugs to cure the mentally ill; a rigid ideological
approach to due process that ignored that the beneficiaries would
end up starving to death or dying of exposure.
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