Mental Health in America: Looking Back With Pride and Ahead With Hope

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• October 7th, 2022
• advocacy, community-based mental health, deinstitutionalization, Fall 2022 Issue, health equity, institutionalization, psychiatric hospitalization, serious mental illness
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In the early 1970s at the height of deinstitutionalization in New York, I worked at a psychiatric rehabilitation program on the West Side of Manhattan that primarily served people who had been in state psychiatric hospitals for 5, 10, 20, even 40 years. Each week I went to Manhattan State Hospital...