I took this as a ong about the paradigm shift in the mental health profession called "Deinstitutionalization." Basically, before this transitions people diagnosed with mental illness were locked up in institutions without the hope of treatment. These were sometimes called Aslyums or State Hospitals. This practice was wrong. Now we have Mental Health Facitlities were care and treatment are priorities. However, the actual process of Deinstitutionalization was a rocky one and to say the institutions were simply emptied of anyone who wasn't a threat to others is not far from the truth. There were a lot of politics involved which of course never help things. While the mental health field is in a better place, the means at which it got there was by no means pleasent or humane.
I took this as a ong about the paradigm shift in the mental health profession called "Deinstitutionalization." Basically, before this transitions people diagnosed with mental illness were locked up in institutions without the hope of treatment. These were sometimes called Aslyums or State Hospitals. This practice was wrong. Now we have Mental Health Facitlities were care and treatment are priorities. However, the actual process of Deinstitutionalization was a rocky one and to say the institutions were simply emptied of anyone who wasn't a threat to others is not far from the truth. There were a lot of politics involved which of course never help things. While the mental health field is in a better place, the means at which it got there was by no means pleasent or humane.