Sorry For The Lack of Activity Here...

I have been extraordinarily busy for my employer, and my spare time has been spent this evening reading H. Richard Lamb, ed., the Homeless Mentally Ill: A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association (1984). Surprisingly enough, while they criticized the method by which deinstitutionalization was implemented, and the reports contain some occasionally veiled references that show that they were holding their tongues a bit, they were reluctant to criticize the idea. But they essentially argued that yes, there were patients who benefited from deinstitutionalization, but there were others who very clearly were worse off as a result. (Surprise, surprise.)