When Medicine Got it Wrong - TRAILER
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Uploaded by docued on Jun 3, 2009
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In 1974 a small group of parents became the first in the nation to publicly refuse blame for causing their children to have schizophrenia. They formed Parents of Adult Schizophrenics and their activism led to parents around the nation demanding changes in how the disease is understood and treated.
Parents of Adult Schizophrenics waged their battles in an era when mental hospitals were shutting down and the most severely ill patients were turned over to the promise of community care. Yet that community care rarely materialized.
This film shows how these families launched one of the fastest growing grassroots movements the nation had seen to date, ushering in an era of dramatic advances in understanding, treatment and brain research.
Medicine now knows that recovery is possible, and happens for the vast majority who receive treatment. Most communities, however, still wrestle with mental healthcare policies based on debunked theories from the 1960s and '70s - pushing many with severe mental illness directly into homelessness or incarceration.
Official website: www.whenmedicine.org
a film by Katie Cadigan & Laura Murray
distributed by Documentary Educational Resources
broadcast nationwide on PBS October, 2009
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Well it's about time! It is vitally important that the public at large begin realizing that the psychiatric community is peopled with humans - ordinary, fallible humans - and not gods.
They're wrong when they hand out psychotherapeutic drugs like candy & they're wrong when the lay blame as a matter of course!!
Perhaps they should focus on "helping" rather than drugging or accusing...
EthelSteadman 2 years ago