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1. Metzel tells us that: “Anti-psychiatry went hand in hand with an international movement called deinstitutionalization that pushed for the liberation of people warehoused in psychiatric hospitals.” He states that JFK’s October 1963 Community Mental Health Act caused a “mass exodus” of persons leaving institutions. (134) Was the deinstitutionalization movement a success? Why or why not?
2. The text concludes that “many mental health professionals feel something is deeply wrong with a system that incarcerates so many mentally ill persons or that posits prisons as primary treatment centers.” (210) This lack of care means prisons, regional jails, and lock-ups are very dangerous places. Inmates are often injured or killed. What is the solution?
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