Posted by AuntieMel on March 22, 2006, at 9:42:35
In reply to Ann Braden Johnson, posted by Squiggles on March 22, 2006, at 8:35:21
Very interesting. I'll have to get the book.
Deinstitutionalization always sounded like it would be a good thing, and it always played well to the masses. Who hasn't heard horror stories about people being locked up against their will?
But in practice, so many people went without help because they couldn't be compelled to get it. The catch-22 - if a person has a mental illness, does he really know what is best? Where to draw the line?
The current line of 'must be about to harm self or others' doesn't quite make it.
And we should all think of those conditions (Bedlam) when we talk of people who "got off" by pleading insanity.
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