Contents: 1 in 5 Americans Suffer
Mental Illness
$6 MILLION
ANNOUNCED TO SUPPORT ANTI-VIOLENCE COALITIONS
11,000 will get health
aid
2000 Census to Let
People Write In 'Other' Ethnicity 7.19 a.m. ET (1119 GMT) July 29, 1999
A Crusader for Mentally
Ill Lost Old Allies
A Former Psychiatric
Patient Accused of Killing a Man By JOHN CURRAN 07/19/99 5:50 PM Eastern
A group finds
that the system needs more money and better accountability and coordination
A Task Force finds
Multnomah County's mental-health system in disarray.
A task force's
ideas include creating an independent department and providing care based on
need
A
Viral Source for Schizophrenia? New Evidence Gives Credence to an Old Theory, but
Many Questions Remain for Researchers
Advocates decry low-paid
labour by ex-psychiatric patients
By SARAH LAMBERT --
Canadian Press
After priest's
murder, bill seeks to monitor mentally ill
Agency cutoff
leaves mentally ill in limbo Kim Barker
AN INEFFECTIVE IDEA: Involuntary
Outpatient, While Attractive Doesn't Work Thomas Behrendt and Jamey Burden
An influential
mental health nonprofit finds its 'grassroots' watered by pharmaceutical
millions
Anxiety
hottest topic in psychiatry
Argument over rights of
disabled leads to 'marriage' Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999 By Hugh Lessig Daily Press Newport News, VA
Arrested protesters
freed
BROWNIES MAKE THE
DIFFERENCE
Bus passenger found innocent by
reason of mental disease in burning of five Associated
Press Writer
CALIFORNIA CODES WELFARE
AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 15630-15632
Calm amid
turmoil: Crisis Triage Center is on the front line for the mentally ill
Charter
Hospital Closings May Signal Bigger Problems Ahead
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTS
ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT
Commentary: Mental
health care system teeters on the edge
Councils 'face
#50m mental health bill' - 'Catastrophe' claim on ruling
Deaf man freed from prison
of silence
By Michael
Booth
,Denver Post Staff Writer
Deinstitutionalization
Hasn't Worked
DOCTORS DRILL INTO
PATIENTS' HEADS IN PLACEBO SURGERY
http://www.independent.co.uk/atp/INDEPENDENT/NEWS/P5S4.html
Effort is on
to get more cash for services, but bill is stalled
Electronic Journal of
Sociology (1998)[PARA]Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill:
[NL]Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy
Families shoulder burden
of caring for mentally ill Published
in the Asbury Park Press By CAREN CHESLER GANNETT STATE BUREAU
FEARSOME MADNESS
Federal Report
Praising Electroshock Stirs Uproar
Forbes shuns
Princeton
Forced Treatment
Doesn't Work
Gartlan: Mental agency
still weak / Director calls criticism fiction Thursday, August 5, 1999 BY MICHAEL HARDY Times-Dispatch Staff Writer Richmond,
VA
Group assails agency for
disabled / Calls state watchdog toothless, urges funding cut Tuesday, July 27, 1999 BY MICHAEL HARDY
Times-Dispatch Staff Writer
Groups may sue
state over mental health care
Half of Girl's Brain Removed To
Stop Seizures Operation is last resort
Health plan
called 'wonderful first step,' but some want state to pick up the pace.
High-Risk Inmates at
Low-Key Hospital
October
13, 1999 By RONALD SMOTHERS
Holidays trigger abuse
memories
Hospital: John
Hinckley Has Recovered
HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE CONVENES HEARING
WHERE MENTAL ILLNESS IS CALLED A "FRAUD"
Housing,
Treatment for Homeless Mentally Ill Saves Emergency Care Costs
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO
IS SOCIALLY DANGEROUS?
In pursuit
of the truth
Individual Assistance for
the Mentally Ill
Information
on Current Civil Commitment Law and Procedure in Oregon
Insurer
maps 6-state affiliation
Internet addiction
is real mental illness
I.R.S. More
Likely to Audit the Poor and Not the Rich
Is The Golden
Age Of Pressure Groups Coming To An Abrupt End?
Judge Bars
Detailed Records in Mental Fitness Reports
Judge chides
mental health system
JUDGES: MENTALLY ILL FACE
ABUSES
Karen McCowan: Programs aim at
mentally ill
Koop
Criticized for Role in Warning on Hospital Gloves
By
HOLCOMB B. NOBLE
Lawyers Gear Up for
Kendra's Law
Life Events Can
Trigger Mental Illness
LOCAL HOSPITAL CHAIN KEEPS
FEDERAL FUNDING, FOR NOW
Long Beach
Program Held Up as Model for State
Lyme disease's hidden
victims For some, symptoms overlooked as mental illness By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff, 08/09/99
Mass resignations
threatened at troubled psychiatric institute
Mazurek seeks
better mental health care
McMAN'S DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR
WEEKLY (June 28) Vol1 No5
Mental health-care
providers are concerned about cutbacks planned by company contracting with Preferred Plus
of Kansas. By
Lillian Zier Martell The Wichita Eagle
MENTAL HEALTH COURT : A King County District Court Pilot Program
Mental-Care
Program Lambasted
MENTAL
HEALTH SERVICES SHIFT TOWARD GREATER CONSUMER PARTICIPATION
Mentally ill
detention plans backed
Mentally ill
suspects may get separate court
Mental Illness Drives
Bodybuilders? Sunday January 9 12:02
PM ET
Mind, Meditation and
Health Care
NATIONAL SHERIFFS'
ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS THE MISSION OF THE TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
Neighbors voice anger
over mental hospital John F. Lauerman, Boston Sunday Globe, 20 June 1999
New health center open Sante
Group went to community to evaluate its outpatient needs
NEW
"MENTAL" VERDICT ON SLOW TRACK
The new
'psyche-spirit' movement in psychology views mental illness as a possible
opening to spiritual transformation
NEW SSI FRAUD AND ABUSE
BILL PASSES IN HOUSE, INTRODUCED IN SENATE
News Analysis: Attacks by
Unstable People Raise Fears, if Not Answers
NIH
Not Told Of Deaths in Gene Studies
Researchers, Companies Kept Agency in the Dark
No More Force
Not Guilty "By Reason
of Shock Treatment and Psychiatric Drugs"
Patient
Advocates Can Help Mentally Ill
Patient
Empowerment Drives Healthcare Changes
Patient race
and gender may affect physician diagnosis of mental health problems
Police mental
health crisis intervention training needed
Princeton's
'professor death'
Program helps
cops ID mentally ill
Psychologists
closer to writing prescriptions
Raeann Leach allegedly
violates her probation
Recent insanity verdict a
rarity in Virginia cases
RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE
The Right to
Know: What Lane County Mental Health Won't Tell Clients
Schizophrenia: Inside This
Issue...
Selling Shyness -
How doctors and drug companies created the "social phobia" epidemic.
Senate
Approves Education, Labor, Health Funds
SLOW PROGRESS IS COSTLY
Social
Security inquiry finds 'intermediaries' bilking recipients
State doctor criticizes
mental health system
State's
mentally ill left adrift as hospitals close
Strickland proposes
separate court dockets for the mentally ill
Sue Grace, Hull
foe on health, 'moves on'
`Talk Is Not
Enough': Demystifying Sessions on the Couch
Task Force
Plays Blame Game
Tenuous
lifelines: Mentally ill who depend on psychotherapy often must battle HMOs to
get enough treatments
Testimony to Little Hoover
Commission
THANKS FOR THE
MEMORIES
The Guinea Pigs' Rebellion
The movement for the rights of mental patients is gaining momentum as
"survivors" and "consumers" join forces. September
1, 1999 BY CHRIS LYDGATE
THE
INFINITE MIND
The prevalence of abuse histories
in the mental health system
The Review-Journal
wins 14 first-place awards in a contest at a banquet for the Nevada Press Association.
By Glenn Puit Review-Journal
Thinking
about suicide is commonplace.
Toward an Inclusive Definition of Disability
By Andrew J. Imparato General Counsel and
Director of Policy National Council on Disability June 28, 1999
Treatment
by Cooperation THE
WASHINGTON POST By Paul Stavis Thursday, August 19, 1999; Page A21
Two
of state's largest insurers will continue with OHP
UK may imprison
potential criminals By PHILIP JOHNSTON
"Unibomber was a volunteer in
mind-control experiments sponsored by CIA"
U.S. faults Western
State / Inadequate staffing held a major problem
Violence by any
other name
We Don't Have to Put Up
With It Business
World By Holman (?) W. Jenkins Jr.
'We have lost effectively
93 percent of our state psychiatric hospital beds since 1955. ' By E. Fuller Torrey and Mary T. Zdanowicz Friday, July 9, 1999; Page A29
Western State is the
target of a federal investigation Report criticizes hospital
What is Schizophrenia? by
William C. Wirshing, M.D.
