Will we see involuntary confinement return, and what does that mean for mental health services grant writers?

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The Atlantic has a long book excerpt titled “American Madness : Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.” The story is about a brilliant man named Michael Laudor, who was also a schizophrenic and as a consequence of schizophrenia killed his pregnant fiancee while in the grips of delusion. The story is partially about what the author, Jonathan Rosen, calls “the wreckage of deinstitutionalization, a movement born out of a belief in the 1950s and ’60s that new medication along with outpatient care could empty the sprawling state hospitals.” Rosen says that: Click here to continue reading.