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Mental Health, Inc.: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens Kindle Edition

by Art Levine (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
The mental health system in America is hardly the front-burner issue it should be, despite lip service about reform after each new tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential commission reported was in “shambles.” By some measures, 20 percent of Americans have some sort of mental health condition, including the most vulnerable among us—veterans, children, the elderly, prisoners, the homeless.With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out of control, profit-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on dangerous residential treatment facilities and the failures of the pharmaceutical industry, including the overdrugging of children with antipsychotics and the disastrous maltreatment of veterans with PTSD by the scandal-wracked VA.Levine provides compelling narrative portraits of victims who needlessly died and some mentally ill people who won unexpected victories in their lives by getting smart, personalized help from “pyschosocial” programs that incorporate safe and appropriate prescribing, along with therapy and social support. He contrasts their stories with corrupt Big Pharma executives and researchers who created fraudulent marketing schemes. Levine also tells the dramatic David vs. Goliath stories of a few brave reformers, including Harvard-trained psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, who has acted as a whistleblower in several major cases, leading to important federal and state settlements; in addition, the book spotlights pioneering clinicians challenging outmoded, drug-and-sedate practices that leave 90 percent of people with serious mental illness too disabled to work.By taking a comprehensive look at mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices as well as pointing toward solutions for creating a system for effective, proven and compassionate care, Art Levine’s essential Mental Health, Inc. is a call to action for politicians and citizens alike—needed now more than ever.
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This well-researched book reveals the scope of an entrenched problem, but it also offers hope...Reading Levine's work might very well be the key to spurring concerned stakeholders into action.

-- "Publishers Weekly"

Art Levine presents a convincing case that corruption and failed political policies have waylaid our mental health system and led to great harm.

-- "Robert Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author"

Gripping...Levine has tirelessly researched stories of individuals whom our system has failed...and he is a crusader on a mission to hold executives and bureaucrats accountable.

-- "New York Journal of Books"

Levine's compelling expose brings the contemporary state of mental health care into stark focus...An urgent, balanced, eye-opening plea for mental health care reform.

-- "Kirkus Reviews"

[A] trenchant expose...While lauding judicious medication, Levine takes aim at endemic 'drug-and-sedate' practices.

-- "Nature"

About the Author

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.



Art Levine, a prizewinning contributing editor of the Washington Monthly and a Nation Institute Investigative Fund grantee, has written for the American Prospect, Salon, the Atlantic, and numerous other publications. In 2001 he was honored as Journalist of the Year by the Florida chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07MXBC3KL
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ABRAMS Press; 1st edition (August 15, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 15, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.9 MB
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Art Levine, prize-winning contributing editor of The Washington Monthly and a Nation Institute Investigative Fund grantee, has written for The American Prospect, Salon, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, Truthout, AlterNet and numerous other publications. Among other awards, he was honored as “Journalist of the Year” by the Florida chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 2001 for his articles in City Link, a Florida weekly, exploring the criminalization of the mentally ill in South Florida.

VICE says of Mental Health, Inc: “A searing indictment of the sorry state of the American mental health care system as seen from the perspective of those who have been victimized by it.”

In 2005, as a Health Policy Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute, he wrote a prescient major report, Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System that looked at roadblocks to using effective treatments. Since then, he has exposed a wide range of corporate and government wrongdoing, in a series of articles for The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly and Salon, among others.

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  • Cherie LeBard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Truth about Big Pharma
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018
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    Exposes the horrifying use of drugs as a method of chemically controlling "problem" people,including children, the elderly and veterans with PTSD. Thank God for people like Dr. Kruszewski, who advocated for children. An eye opening and terrifying look at mind control.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Important reading to understand today's mental health topology
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018
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    While I do not agree with everything that mister Art Levine's book posits, about 95% of the book for me is spot-on. From the politics to the public health issues to the medication. This book should be required reading for all students in public health programs.
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  • Cogito Ergo Sum
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Clarion Call for Mental Health Reform
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2017
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    I saw Art Levine on Book TV, which influenced me to purchase Mental Health, Inc. Despite his interview with Jeffrey Lieberman, who I surmised had not even read the book and talked too much, embarrassing himself in the process; I felt Levine did a good job generating interest about the book

    Overall, the book is excellent and well researched with first-rate organization and impeccable endnote documentation. As a former psychologist who has worked with the client populations he describes and the institutions depicted, I can say that the book rings very true. Mental Health, Inc. exposes the vast amount of corruption within the mental health system and the enormous damage caused by the medical model, psychotropic drugs, and institutional programs with little to no oversight or scientific evidence to back them. The book delves deeply into each of these areas, causing readers to question knee-jerk drug prescription and standard psychiatric practice, while at the same time shining a light on the hope generated by caring, compassionate, supportive relationships with human beings. Mental Health, Inc. stands with the works of Robert Whitaker, Peter Breggin, and other like-minded authors, as a clarion call for mental health reform. I think our best hope lies with nonmedical programs similar to that of Mary Neal Vieten, which Levine discusses in detail, as well as with the art of human relationship. Only two things prevented me from giving the book a five-star ranking: (1) it included an obvious partisan bias, which distracted from the message, and (2) an index would have been useful. Other than those two issues, I would highly recommend this thought provoking book to anyone with concerns about the failures of our present-day mental health system.
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  • Duncan Smith
    3.0 out of 5 stars tells a well known story of the mental health industry ...
    Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018
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    tells a well known story of the mental health industry and capitalism that is, if you are diagnosed with a mental health issue try to get help from someone who is not a salesrep from big or little pharma trust your gut a bit when choosing your therapist

    remember that most of the industry is corporate and run by or through big pharma and big insurance companies and much of the rest is incompetent
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  • Linekin Lady
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and Informative
    Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2017
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    Still reading the book, but excellent so far. Levine really did his homework and provides a lot of eye opening info on what's happening with our mentally ill, Vets and nursing home patients. Sad ... but enlightening.
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  • BEARDED ACE
    5.0 out of 5 stars this book is a excellent resource for many of those that are clueless on ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2017
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    Accurate reflection of the unseen problems in America regarding mental health. As an Iraq veteran, this book is a excellent resource for many of those that are clueless on this epidemic in America.
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  • Sheila Turner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very pertinent information
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2017
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    Ordered for my brother who is a Minister, he loves it.
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Mad in America is Better
    Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2018
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    Contains interesting personal stories and bits of history between blaming Donald Trump policies, fear mongering how things will get worse and defending Obamacare. Would love an expose' on what's going on currently with mental health, pro and con, especially big pharmacy and latest advances minus the political maneuvering. Big turn off to read the names Trump and Obama rather than Dorothea Dix or Mitch Snyder - Which may have appeared but I didnt get that far.
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