Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

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Documentary

Overview

Psychiatrist Dr. Dean Brooks, who appears in the film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and others discuss how jails and prisons have become our new asylums and how community care, especially inadequately funded community care, is failing to help people. They also discuss the need for what his granddaughter, Dr. Ulista Brooks, describes as “true asylums” — the construction of new modern mental hospitals, and other important issues regarding care for the mentally ill.

Keywords

psychiatric hospital
mental health advocacy

Details

Status: Released
Release date: September 28, 2010
Original language: English
Spoken languages: english
Production: Lagniappe Films
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded