Forty Years of Deinstitutionalization of Psychiatric Services in Canada: An Empirical Assessment

Sealy, Patricia; Whitehead, Paul C.

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“…In theory, money saved from dismantling institutions would be diverted to community-based care programs that would work to integrate people with SMI into the community and provide more cost-effective care. However, most people with SMI have not been the consumers of community care services in Canada (Sealy and Whitehead, 2004).…”

Section: Strategies Of Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Therapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health court

Nordberg

2015

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Mental health courts (MHCs) are a response to the structural violence experienced by people with severe mental illness (SMI) involved in the criminal justice system. My ethnographic research of an MHC in urban Canada serves as the foundation for a discussion of court processes that are an example of biopower. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how strategies for intervention in the name of life and health, truth discourses and forms of self-governance operate among criminal justice-involved individuals with SMI. This study reveals the tensions between the intense forensic gaze and invisibility and between treatment strategies that are beneficial for some people with SMI yet ultimately coercive and oppressive. The governance of this population is discussed, as well as what happens to people who fail or refuse to self-govern as the court compels them.

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Section: Strategies Of Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Therapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health court

Nordberg

2015

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“…The social, economic and political conditions during the mid-1900s, discussed above, all created an environment that called for the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. Consequently, beginning in the 1960s, there was a worldwide trend towards moving psychiatric patients from mental hospital settings to less restricting settings in the community (Sealy & Whitehead, 2004). This resulted in drastic downsizing of institutions by eliminating hundreds of psychiatric beds which were previously meant for mentally ill people (Smyth, 2006).…”

Section: Deinstitutionalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Growth of community based services. [3][4][5] In most countries the latter directive involved creating acute psychiatric units in general hospitals and clinics.…”

Section: Can We Blame Deinstitutionalization?mentioning

confidence: 99%