An Expert’s Prescriptions to Reform Mental Illness Treatments

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Andrew Scull, professor of sociology and science studies at UC San Diego, has studied mental illness for the past fifty years.

In his book “Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness,” Andrew Scull says the lack of concern for the social and psychological dimensions has thrown many mentally ill people into the streets and jails.