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PSYCHO! Violence and Mental Illness
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"Psychiatric illness does not make a person violent." Okay, what about David Weston? "People with psychiatric illness, and no substance abuse, are no more likely to be violent than others in the community." And then someone gets a Montana-made bomb mailed to him. To observe the different appraisals of the violence-mental illness issue from institutional and forensic mental health compete for the high road is to witness an unending series of contradictions.
In one corner are those whose noble desire to promote the self-respect and hope of the chronic mentally ill translates into a tenacious crusade to rid the media of tabloid headlines. It's a 'spin necessitated not by the falsity of screaming banners, but 'by their grotesque aim at the vis
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