Mad in America

JULY 17, 2024

N eil Gong is an assistant professor of sociology at UC San Diego, where he researches psychiatric services, homelessness, and how communities seek to maintain social order. What can we learn about the intersection of mental health, homelessness, and social policy? How do these disparate systems reflect our societal values?

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

We were living in poverty with my siblings and life was difficult. Community support workers and peer support workers had a supervisor who carried out activities in delivering the intervention. I have also learnt so many things about mental health and my hope for the future has increased.

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

I n 1999, New York State passed the first Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) law, which creates a regime of civil courts to force psychiatric interventions on those found to have “serious and persistent mental illness” who “struggle to engage voluntarily” with care. What made this year different?

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