Articulo en Catholic World Report  acerca de la medida en que las concepciones sesenteras acerca de la locura han contribuido a la masacre de Newtown.

To understand how mental illness went from a being considered a form of great deviance to an alternative lifestyle, it is helpful to look back at the efforts of the 1960s advocates who began lobbying for the rights of the mentally ill. Inspired by sociologist Erving Goffman’s book Asylums, progressives began to claim in the 1960s that coercive treatment for mental illness actually exacerbated the bizarre behavior of those labeled mentally ill. This outlook was reinforced by Michel Foucault, who asserted in Madness and Civilization that modern conceptions of mental illness were “socially constructed” when bourgeois society prevailed and demanded greater conformity.

(...) The costs have been high—especially in big cities. Despite a declining crime rate in New York City, there continue to be attacks on innocent people by violent mentally ill persons. Just last month an innocent man was pushed onto the subway tracks to his death by a man described as “disturbed.”

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Based on this information, the Times investigation revealed a high association between violence and mental illness. Nearly half (47) of the 100 rampage killers had a history of mental health problems before they killed, 20 had been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and 42 had been seen by mental health professionals. Psychiatric drugs had been prescribed to 24 of the killers at some point before their rampages, but most were not taking their prescribed medication when they committed their crimes.

Aunque sin armas automaticas nos habriamos encontrado al menos con una reducción en la escala de la agresión. En casos de violencia menor , en EEUU se estan utilizando las vias de la indeminizaciones civiles contra las instituciones sanitarias.Pais querulante, sí.


Afinando, el "community care" no esta funcionando y  los sistemas de salud mental "tienen una larga historia de cubrirse las espaldas"