Episodes
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Contrasting Current Problems and Progress in State's Mental Health Tasks
I discuss California's current enormous mental health service delivery issues in the state prison population, then Texas' admirable current progress and ambitious long term effort to almost completely rebuild its state wide mental health system
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Podcast 5 Sept 2017
An overview history of waves of reform, the good and not so good consequences, benefits and failings of each,from the 1700's to the modern ages of treatments leading to outlining the enormous social we now universally face, linked to consideration of the question the rise of the mass shooting...
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Podcast Ep 5 Aug 12 2017
My apologies for two two month hiatus due to illness. This episode will summarize the early history of treatment of the chronically mentally ill in more overview fashion. Then I will start the future direction of this podcast transitioning into the early starts of reform of mental health service...
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Podcast 4 July 1 2017
Review from a psychiatric provider's viewpoint of the recently emerged Republican Senate's health care legislation, with an emphasis on its possible effects on mental health coverage and an attempt at an explanation of its provisions and economic impact on national coverage issues.