{"product_id":"my-brother-ron-clayton-e-cramer-9781477667538","title":"My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill","description":"America started a grand experiment in the 1960s: deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were very destructive: homelessness; a degradation of urban life; increases in violent crime rates; increasing death rates for the mentally ill. My Brother Ron tells the story of deinstitutionalization from two points of view: what happened to the author's older brother, part of the first generation of those who became mentally ill after deinstitutionalization, and a detailed history of how and why America went down this path. My Brother Ron examines the multiple strands that came together to create the perfect storm that was deinstitutionalization: a well-meaning concern about the poor conditions of many state mental hospitals; a giddy optimism by the psychiatric profession in the ability of new drugs to cure the mentally ill; a rigid ideological approach to due process that ignored that the beneficiaries would end up starving to death or dying of exposure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clayton E. Cramer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477667539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477667538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d","brand":"Clayton E. Cramer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935575507199,"sku":"9781477667538","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3343071b-38c7-442f-8017-3cfe631597fe.jpg?v=1681420601","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-brother-ron-clayton-e-cramer-9781477667538","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}