One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Posted on 02/02/2014 11:25:27 AM PST by Innovative
You can thank JFK, the man who’s election ended America.
Emptying the Mental Hospitals was the last bill he signed, it was after he unionized federal employees.
“”Reform was well underway when President John F. Kennedy endorsed this new era in mental health in a 1963 speech, calling for a “bold new approach” in which “reliance on the cold mercy of custodial isolation will be supplanted by the open warmth of community concern and capability.”
Those were heady days in American psychiatry, when psychoanalysis and the mental hygiene movement held sway and promised to cure all manner of ills by early intervention and improving the social environment. In hindsight, the therapeutic zeal of these professionals was impressively naïve: They were certain that severely mentally ill patients in state hospitals — many living there for decades — would magically adjust to the community and do well with outpatient treatment. How wrong they proved to be.””
A Solution That Now Looks Crazy
‘American Psychosis’ Attacks Mental Health Care
JAN. 13, 2014
Books
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.
“How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System”: That subtitle is the opening shot across the bow in this jeremiad of a book by the psychiatrist Dr. E. Fuller Torrey. It could just as well have read: “How a group of well-intentioned, starry-eyed idealists made a hash of mental health care.”
He could have shot the president and a few others and gotten out for weekends and such. I guess he tried to steal a necklace from a democrat.
He could have shot the president and a few others and gotten out for weekends and such. I guess he tried to steal a necklace from a democrat.”
yes,, indeed:
‘His stay at Saint Elizabeths now has been longer than that of the Hospital’s most famous resident, John Hinckley Jr., who was committed to Saint Elizabeths after his 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and was recently granted a conditional release.”
‘A federal judge on Friday gave President Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin modestly more freedom, allowing the 58-year-old who has lived and received mental health treatment for more than three decades at St. Elizabeths Hospital to spend 17 days a month visiting his mother’s home town of Williamsburg, Va.”
Now that you mention it, that sounds likely. Seen that vey thing before. Someone does well on their meds and thinks they are cured, so they go off their meds. And then it gets bad.
40 years certainly seems excessive for stealing a necklace (the value shouldn’t matter, as $20 in 1974 isn’t the same as $20 today), but if the perp had a long rap sheet before he committed that crime then 40 years may be appropriate.
Since 1971, shrinks have declared that homosexuality is no longer a mental illness. Psychiatry is the biggest form of witchcraft we have going in America.
“Mhmmm... I reckon I’ll try sum o doez french fried taters....
“I call it a sling blade, others call it a Kaiser blade....”
“Psychiatry is the biggest form of witchcraft we have going in America.”
Yeah; all you have to do is be eccentric and you get accused, you have to prove your innocence, or you’re hounded into confessing and then you have to have a huge blot on your permanent record and you can lose your freedom very easily.
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