[Magdalen] Washington Post article on involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

That would be the fault of the professionals.  There is no excuse for the
lack of community care. As I say, it's been a known quantity since the
fifties. And it has a track record reaching way back, so, to sound like a
broken record, there is no excuse.

Some might find this article interesting.  When I began working in mental
health, we were studying all the ideas that have born fruit. This is one of
the older ones.

http://aeon.co/magazine/health/the-town-where-the-mentally-ill-get-a-warm-welcome/


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Except that community care is pretty much nonexistent in most places.
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
>
> > On 15/02/2015 17:25, Susan Hagen wrote:
> >
> >> This is the link to the Washington Post article:
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/ng34evr
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, as the piece points out helping somebody in the community can be
> > more effective and cheaper than incarcerating them.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>