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Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about theirā¦
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Robert Whitakerās books inform my work. BothĀ Mad in AmericaĀ andĀ Anatomy of an EpidemicĀ provided crucial policy background as I searched for my brother's personhood. Whitakerās deep research and ferocious insistence that we rethink psychiatric care guided me into the world of mental illness, the history of treatment, and the controversy over forcing medication on unwilling people. I sympathize with Whitaker and the people who believe anti-psychotics make things worse. But I also meet many with diagnoses who believe in the mantra, ātake your meds.ā Best practices cannot be one-size (pill)-fits all. I end my own bookĀ by imaginingā¦
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