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Simply blaming the process of "deinstitutionalization" has been a convenient shorthand to explain away the tragedy of how thousands of mentally ill people were committed to life on the streets. Such a one-dimensional view fails, however, to deal with the deep and powerful cultural and political forces that caused deinstitutionalization and continue to keep us from confronting and ending this disgrace to our society. Madness in the Streets is the first book to identify the astounding social and political delusions which justified ignoring the needs of the mentally ill. In the 1960s, a national fashion for casting off all forms of what was perceived as "oppression" found its perfect target in the psychiatric establishment. Mental illness did not exist, its critics claimed: it was only a "label" for people perceived as "different." Such illness as there was could be treated in the community. The psychiatric establishment accepted these misguided and untested notions, and now our society offers no real response to people in need of help. During the same period, the national enthusiasm for a civil rights approach to all social problems produced a body of case law which has made it impos

Who reads Madness in the Streets : How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill?

Author

Rael Jean Isaac, Virginia C. Armat

Publisher

Free Press of Glencoe ; Collier Macmillan : Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780029153819

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Medicine