Movie: Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

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Dr. Ulista Hoover
Dr. Ulista Hoover

Self

Dr. Ulista Brooks
Dr. Ulista Brooks

Dr. Arthur E. Tolan
Dr. Arthur E. Tolan

Self

Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas

Self

Hazel Patton
Hazel Patton

Self

Linda Hammond
Linda Hammond

Self

Rex Gorger
Rex Gorger

Self

Dean R. Brooks
Dean R. Brooks

Self - as Dr. Dean R. Brooks

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    Psychiatrist Dr. Dean Brooks, who appears in the film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and others discuss how jails and prisons have become our new asylums and how community care, especially inadequately funded community care, is failing to help people. They also discuss the need for what his granddaughter, Dr. Ulista Brooks, describes as “true asylums” — the construction of new modern mental hospitals, and other important issues regarding care for the mentally ill.

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    2010-09-28

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