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Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong

Mad in America

My first job after college was on a community mental health treatment team, where we worked with people diagnosed with serious mental illness who had been long-term street homeless. Broadly, it was driven by well-documented abuse and neglect in asylums, spiraling hospital costs, and an overly optimistic faith in new medications.

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Maryland Enacts a “Draconian” Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program

Mad in America

Yet, in many of America’s underfunded and under-resourced community-based systems, it is often impossible for people to access care until and unless they are in a crisis. Proponents of court-ordered treatment also frequently argue that it is voluntary. That’s really what it came down to.”