insane america's treatment of mental illness

Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable. A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental health care crisis in the U.S. She also surveys a range of efforts to address the problem, making the case for a large-scale overhaul of mental health care and criminal justice. Investigating police departments, courts, jails, and emergency health-care facilities across the country, Roth provides the first nationwide account of this mental health crisis-and uncovers the hidden forces behind it. She introduces us to ordinary people whose untreated mental illnesses drive them repeatedly into the justice system-and in some cases, to their deaths. A Pennsylvania psychiatrist, Kirkbride founded the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, a group that later became the American Psychiatric. She takes readers from the overwhelmed mental health units of the Los Angeles County jail to the women's prisons of Oklahoma, which have one of the fastest-growing populations of people with mental illness in the country. Ms Roth provides information about the past and present mental health system and imprisoning those with mental health issues. In Insane, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to reveal how America's tough-on-crime policies have transformed it into a warehouse for people with mental illness, one where prisoners are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. The American Neurological Association, organized in 1875, grew out of the Civil War experiences of physicians who had been involved in caring for soldiers with traumatic injuries of the brain and nerves. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth is worth reading to educate yourself in what is going on in the prisons and jails. As many as half the people in US jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. The country's three largest providers of mental health care are not hospitals, but jails. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with mental illness. Summary: In America, having a mental illness has become a crime.

Insane america's treatment of mental illness