Journalist Pete Earley joins host Margot Adler to discuss his struggle with his son's mental illness and his investigation into America's mental health system.
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Pete Earley
is the author of the Pulitizer Prize-nominated book Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness. His other books include "The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison," "Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring," and "Circumstantial Evidence." He is a former reporter for The Washington Post.
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Activist and lawyer Jonathan Stanley and civil rights attorney Michael Allen join host Margot Adler to debate involuntary treatment laws.
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Jonathan Stanley
is assistant director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses. Since the onset of his bipolar disorder, Stanley graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts and Quinnippiac College School of Law in Connecticut and has been a practicing attorney. In 2005, he was honored with the Anchor Achievement Award for Leadership and Excellence in Mental Health Advocacy.
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Michael Allen
is counsel to the civil rights law firm of Relman & Dane, PLLC where his practice focuses on litigation under the Fair Housing Act and Americans with Disabilities Act. From 1995 to 2006 he was senior staff attorney and director of the fair housing program at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Michael has lobbied, written, lectured and consulted widely on civil rights and mental health issues, including involuntary treatment laws.
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Law and behavioral sciences professor Elyn Saks shares her experience with forced treatment.
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Elyn Saks
is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She is a research clinical associate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Her memoir The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness has just been published.
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Marie, a mother in Ohio, talks about having to give up custody of her son in order to get adequate treatment for his mental illness, and Darcy Gruttadaro of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) joins host Margot Adler to discuss the practice of child custody relinquishment and recent legislative efforts to help families facing this dilemma.
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Darcy E. Gruttadaro
is the director of the NAMI National Child & Adolescent Action Center, where she focuses on helping to reform the children’s mental health system. Before joining NAMI, Ms. Gruttadaro worked as an independent legal advisor and policy analyst for the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association and other healthcare and advocacy organizations. She has worked extensively on the issues of state mental health parity laws and mandated minimum mental health benefit laws.
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Professor Elyn Saks returns to talk about her experience with schizophrenia and how she has managed to lead a productive life while dealing with her mental illness.
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