Given the current implementation of mental health parity in insurance benefits
and the enactment of healthcare reform, this book is essential reading for
anyone wanting to understand both the historical context of public psychiatry
and what the future might hold. Most people with serious mental illness are seen
in the public sector of psychiatry, and the significance of psychiatric
treatment in the public sector is best understood one person at a time. This
book tells the story of public psychiatry with examples from the author's
experience running Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), one of the country's
premier public mental health centers. It covers four major periods in