MENTAL HEALTH, INC.

The no-holds-barred crucial call to action for America's broken mental health system, by a prize-winning investigative journalist

From the over-drugging of patients to the abuses perpetuated in residential facilities, there's almost no arena
of mental health care that hasn't been corrupted by corporate greed. In this insightful exposé in the vein of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, Art Levine investigates the failures of the American mental health system, exposing flaws in psychiatric research and ethics, drug company marketing, and outdated government regulations.
Enriched by narrative portraits of victims, investigative profiles of corrupt executives and academic researchers—and the dramatic David vs. Goliath stories of a few brave reformers who have taken on the health care and drug companies that have so warped treatment—this groundbreaking book offers a new, individual-led approach to understanding our corrupted and failed mental health system. Levine provides a pragmatic way forward that can help promote opportunities for people struggling with mental illness to lead productive and fulfilling lives.

Mental Health, Inc. presents a comprehensive, narrative-driven look at the most critical mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices while also probing the corporate and government obstacles hindering the provision of effective evidence-based care.

Art Levine, a prize-winning contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, has written for The American Prospect, Salon, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, and numerous other publications. He was named “Journalist of the Year” by the Florida chapter of the National Alliance or the Mentally Ill in 2001 for his articles in City Link, a Florida weekly, exploring the criminalization of the mentally ill in South Florida. As a Health Policy Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute, he wrote the prescient major report Parity Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System.