Understanding history can help legislators and physicians understand the present and prevent a repetition of mistakes. How the government should treat mentally ill (really brain-diseased) people and where it should house...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

MA Needs Robust Involuntary Outpatient Treatment, Not Flimsy Law

Before the 1970s, the United States presumed that not being psychotic was better than being psychotic. If the psychotic person couldn't recognize this, the state took care of her or him. It didn’t ask what the psychotic ...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Cherry-Picking Psychiatric Patients Must Become Illegal

Hospital administrators allow their inpatient psychiatric units to discriminate against aggressive and uncooperative patients. Do administrators believe such discrimination is perfectly acceptable? Do they believe select...

Lynn Nanos

28.12.2022

Assisted Outpatient Treatment Myths Versus Reality

Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is a mental health program under civil court order that motivates adults with serious mental illnesses, who’ve had difficulty in adhering to voluntary treatment, to engage in treatment...

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Roots of the Asylum

MA Needs Robust Involuntary Outpatient Treatment, Not Flimsy Law

Cherry-Picking Psychiatric Patients Must Become Illegal

Assisted Outpatient Treatment Myths Versus Reality

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