Book contents
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction/Description of the Problem
- Chapter 1 Balancing the Pendulum: Rethinking the Role of Institutionalization in the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness
- Chapter 2 Deinstitutionalization and Other Factors in the Criminalization of Persons with Serious Mental Illness and How it is Being Addressed
- Chapter 3 A Brief History of the Criminalization of Mental Illness
- Chapter 4 A Social History of Psychotic Illness
- Chapter 5 Forensic Patients in State Psychiatric Hospitals: 1999–2016
- Chapter 6 A Survey of National Trends in Psychiatric Patients Found Incompetent to Stand Trial: Reasons for the Reinstitutionalization of People with Serious Mental Illness in the United States
- Chapter 7 Forensic Psychiatry and Mental Health in Australia: An Overview
- Chapter 8 Community Forensic Psychiatric Services in England and Wales
- Chapter 9 A Longitudinal Description of Incompetent to Stand Trial Admissions to a State Hospital
- Part II Solutions
- Part III Psychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part IV Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part V Criminal Justice and Social Considerations
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - A Social History of Psychotic Illness
from Part I - Introduction/Description of the Problem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021
Book contents
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction/Description of the Problem
- Chapter 1 Balancing the Pendulum: Rethinking the Role of Institutionalization in the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness
- Chapter 2 Deinstitutionalization and Other Factors in the Criminalization of Persons with Serious Mental Illness and How it is Being Addressed
- Chapter 3 A Brief History of the Criminalization of Mental Illness
- Chapter 4 A Social History of Psychotic Illness
- Chapter 5 Forensic Patients in State Psychiatric Hospitals: 1999–2016
- Chapter 6 A Survey of National Trends in Psychiatric Patients Found Incompetent to Stand Trial: Reasons for the Reinstitutionalization of People with Serious Mental Illness in the United States
- Chapter 7 Forensic Psychiatry and Mental Health in Australia: An Overview
- Chapter 8 Community Forensic Psychiatric Services in England and Wales
- Chapter 9 A Longitudinal Description of Incompetent to Stand Trial Admissions to a State Hospital
- Part II Solutions
- Part III Psychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part IV Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part V Criminal Justice and Social Considerations
- Index
- References
Summary
Have you ever walked down the street and seen someone with mental illness, agitated and yelling, or lying on the sidewalk, and wondered why? Have you ever wondered why, despite myriad reforms from bold thinkers and progressive governments over centuries, does this still occur? Why, despite miraculous technology, comfort, and opportunity for the majority of the Western population, do people living with serious mental illness continue to miss out on a good life? Or even a humane one?
Have you ever walked down the street and seen someone with mental illness, agitated and yelling, or lying on the sidewalk, and wondered why? Have you ever wondered why, despite myriad reforms from bold thinkers and progressive governments over centuries, does this still occur? Why, despite miraculous technology, comfort, and opportunity for the majority of the Western population, do people living with serious mental illness continue to miss out on a good life? Or even a humane one?
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