My Brother Ron by Mr Clayton E Cramer

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My Brother Ron by Mr Clayton E Cramer

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My Brother Ron by Mr Clayton E Cramer

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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ISBN 13 9781477667538
ISBN 10 1477667539
Title My Brother Ron
Author Mr Clayton E Cramer
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Year published 2012-06-28
Number of pages 260
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.