ESNW Summer Sunday Discussion Sunday July 11th at 11:00 AM
Live and In-Person on the ESNW Patio
Please Note: Chairs will be spaced wide apart (minimum 6 ft.). If you are fully vaccinated, masks are optional; if you are not fully vaccinated, masks must be worn.
Serious mental illness has been part of humankind since we have recorded history. Since the Middle Ages, societies throughout the world have attempted to care for and treat their ill members in various ways – more or less successfully. Currently, most of the chronically mental ill people in the US are either living uncared for in the streets or are incarcerated with poor psychiatric care. As there is a strong push for decarceration, we need to think more urgently about the care and treatment of these vulnerable members of our society.
Here are some suggested discussion points:
Has Serious Mental Illness (SMI) changed or only our understanding
and caring for persons with SMI?What contributed to the failure of the 1963 Community Mental Health Act? Underfunding? Continued stigmatization of mental illness as risk for public safety? Lack of professional and political leadership? Unrealistic expectations?
and caring for persons with SMI?What contributed to the failure of the 1963 Community Mental Health Act? Underfunding? Continued stigmatization of mental illness as risk for public safety? Lack of professional and political leadership? Unrealistic expectations?
What care could you envision for people with Serious Mental Illness?
Could the example of Trieste be achieved in the US?
Click Links Below for Suggested Readings
Improving Long-term Psychiatric Care Bring Back the Asylum
https://www.namikenosha.org/uploads/4/9/0/6/49066629/jvp140158.pdfThe “New Asylums” – and the Old
https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/history/the-new-asylums-and-the-old
https://www.namikenosha.org/uploads/4/9/0/6/49066629/jvp140158.pdfThe “New Asylums” – and the Old
https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/history/the-new-asylums-and-the-old
World’s Best and Worst Places to Be Mentally Ill
Klaus Schreiber received his medical training in Germany and came to New York for his training in Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. Finding life in the USA (50 years ago!) exciting, he and his family decided to stay here for good. Klaus has been a member of the Ethical Society of Northern Westchester for seven years, and currently serves on our Board of Trustees.