The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey has been advocating tougher involuntary psychiatric treatment policies for 40 years. Now it’s paying off. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Psychiatry and Psychiatrists”
NYC Will Hospitalize Mentally Ill People Involuntarily
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2022
Mayor Eric Adams directed the police and emergency medical workers to hospitalize people they deemed too mentally ill to care for themselves, even if they posed no threat to others. Source: New York Times
Can This Man Stop Lying?
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2022
Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood. Source: New York Times
Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, Phoenix House Founder, Dies at 87
By Gotham Rex on November 19, 2022
A psychiatrist, he was an early apostle for treating drug and alcohol addiction with group therapy in a residential setting. Source: New York Times
Jeffrey Lieberman, Columbia Psychiatry Chair, Is Suspended
By Gotham Rex on February 23, 2022
The post from Jeffrey Lieberman, which described the model as possibly a “freak of nature,” drew negative attention from medical professionals. Source: New York Times
Decades Adrift in a Broken System, Then Charged in a Death on the Tracks
By Gotham Rex on February 5, 2022
Martial Simon, mentally ill and homeless, spent years in and out of hospitals before being accused of shoving Michelle Go in front of a subway train. Source: New York Times
Darby Penney, Who Crusaded for Better Psychiatric Care, Dies at 68
By Gotham Rex on December 22, 2021
She shed light on marginalized people’s lives by examining the contents of suitcases left in the attic of a psychiatric hospital. She went on to become a prominent activist. Source: New York Times
A Psychiatrist Invited to Yale Spoke of Fantasies of Shooting White People
By Gotham Rex on June 6, 2021
The Yale School of Medicine said the tone and content of a lecture by Dr. Aruna Khilanani, who has a private practice in New York, were “antithetical to the values of the school.” Source: New York Times
Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms
By Gotham Rex on December 28, 2020
Most had no history of mental illness and became psychotic weeks after contracting the virus. Cases are expected to remain rare but are being reported worldwide. Source: New York Times