Should The U.S. Bring Back Psychiatric Asylums?

In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, bioethicists at the University of Pennsylvania addressed this crisis of mental health care in the U.S. and proposed re-creating the long-term hospitalization through public hospitals – or more controversially phrased, “bringing back asylums” (see Improving Long-term Psychiatric Care – Bring Back the Asylum).

This month we asked OPEN MINDS Advisory Board members, Bob Dunbar and George Braunstein, to weigh in on this proposition as a viable solution for the health and human service industry and to discuss additional solutions.

Adopting Long-Term, Community-Based Care – Abandon . . .