| The modern system of letting the loonies loose is not working. Dangerous individuals need to be locked up, not just for their own safety but for everyone else’s. There is reluctance to bring back the old system of keeping the crazies locked up thanks to scary stories about psychiatric hospitals in the 1970s and earlier, both fictional (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” comes to mind) and fact-based (Jim Sheridan’s “The Secret Scripture” is a good example). But the nightmares of the past have less to do with the actual practice of separating people from the community, and more to do with bad staff recruitment and management, and cruel, obsolete psychiatric practices (lobotomies, electric shock therapy, padded rooms, restraints, forced medication). |
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