TY - JOUR
T1 - Myths of mental health
T2 - Revelations from the french system for the united states
AU - Perera, Isabel M.
AU - Barnard, Alex V.
N1 - Funding Information:
*Department of Government, Cornell University. †Department of Sociology, New York University. Correspondence: Isabel M. Perera, Department of Government, Cornell University, White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850. Email: [email protected]. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Chateaubriand Foundation for their work, and Barnard additionally thanks the Georges Lurcy Fellowship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - Drawing on an analysis of the French mental health system, this essay examines four presumptions about mental health care dominant in the United States: (1) the required abolition of the hospital for psychiatric deinstitutionalization; (2) the substitutability of public and private financing; (3) the importance of a “dangerousness” criterion for involuntary commitment procedures; and (4) the need for an ever-expanding scope of care. These claims hold little weight when subjected to comparative scrutiny, and the essay closes by discussing the implications of these revelations for US mental health care policy and ethics.
AB - Drawing on an analysis of the French mental health system, this essay examines four presumptions about mental health care dominant in the United States: (1) the required abolition of the hospital for psychiatric deinstitutionalization; (2) the substitutability of public and private financing; (3) the importance of a “dangerousness” criterion for involuntary commitment procedures; and (4) the need for an ever-expanding scope of care. These claims hold little weight when subjected to comparative scrutiny, and the essay closes by discussing the implications of these revelations for US mental health care policy and ethics.
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U2 - 10.1353/pbm.2021.0008
DO - 10.1353/pbm.2021.0008
M3 - Article
C2 - 33746133
AN - SCOPUS:85103230427
SN - 0031-5982
VL - 64
SP - 103
EP - 118
JO - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
JF - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
IS - 1
ER -