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| Title | : | My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.34 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1477667539 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
Supreme Court decisions, as well as in dozens of decisions from federal appellate courts and state supreme courts. About the Author Clayton E. His work has been cited in U.S. Cramer is a software engineer by day who teaches history at the College of Western Idaho at night. He lives in Idaho.
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 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.. 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. America started a grand experiment in the 1960s:
Excellent story, Sad great granny Excellent story, Sad. I had no idea that the mental health issue was so transformed and a great contributor to the current homeless situation. Make it easier to understand how there are so many homeless on our streets today.. "Outstanding history of America's methods for dealing with mental illness" according to South Texan. This is a terrific history of society's methods for dealing with the problems of the mentally ill. It explains a great deal of the homelessness problem, especially those who refuse or cannot make use of the society's efforts to help them. It also explains the background to the large overlap between the those with substantial mental illness and those incarcerated for or involved in crime.Mr. Cramer's emotional energy and motivation for writing the book is derived from his brother Ron's lapse into schizophrenia, which he uses to illustrate changes in mental health paradigms (and the associated personal pain) but it is no. A great history of the mental illness story the past 40 years. Michael T Kennedy I was a medical student in 1962 when I got a summer job working in a VA psychiatric hospital doing routine physicals on the inmates. They were all men and some had been there for years. They were all "chronic hospital cases," as described in this excellent history. Mr. Cramer gives a very thorough history of psychiatry leading up to the introduction of psychiatric drugs that actually worked and the social upheavals of the 60s that led to the emptying of the state mental hospitals. At the time I had my personal experience with the chronic schizophrenic, the deinstitutionalization movement was just getting started. My ow
Supreme Court decisions, as well as in dozens of decisions from federal appellate courts and state supreme courts. Cramer is a software engineer by day who teaches history at the College of Western Idaho at night. . He lives in Idaho. His work has been cited in U.S. Clayton E
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