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Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

Year: 2010 Documentary Runtime: 31 min

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

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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