A New Era in Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness
One problem was that nobody knew how to prevent severe mental illness; another was that rehabilitation was not always possible, and could only follow treatment, which was easily rejected. And despite having been created to replace hospitals caring for the most intractably ill, community mental-health centers, as their name suggested, aimed to treat
... See moreJonathan Rosen • American Madness
Jails, more and more, have become warehouses for people with mental illness. The stats sum it up: of the almost two million jail and prison inmates in the United States, almost three hundred thousand are people with serious mental illness. Twenty percent of these mentally ill inmates were homeless when they were incarcerated. Seventy-five percent
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
What would the architecture of an anti-psychiatry world be?
What would we have instead of wards?
What spaces would we have for community care?
Would our homes look different?
I think about when my uncle would be taken onto the ward, how he just disappeared from my life for a while. The network of care he needs, he relies on his parents and carers,... See more
What would we have instead of wards?
What spaces would we have for community care?
Would our homes look different?
I think about when my uncle would be taken onto the ward, how he just disappeared from my life for a while. The network of care he needs, he relies on his parents and carers,... See more