Reply #6: Or "community-based" services, [View All]

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which means a bunch of under-qualified people "wrapping-around" mentally-ill individuals "support services", thus raking a lot of money from the State without any therapeutic effect. State Hospitals have become distributors, often de-localized, of "psychiatric services", meaning "distribution of medications," fundamental, theoretical psychotherapeutic thinking and research have gone down the drain and are virtually extinct. Statistical thinking and research, on the other hand, has become the ultimate truth, thanks to the insurance companies, and a neurological understanding of psychology is still in complete infancy, in spite of the constant claims of breakthrough discoveries, claims which are necessary if you want to obtain funding. Anti-psychotics are now routinely used as downers even if the patient is not psychotic, thus not addressing the main symptoms and imposing many unpleasant side-effects and further increasing the likelihood of discontinuation.
So... yes, that's a lot of very disturbed individuals who are left in the grip of their overwhelming primitive anxiety and aggression. For one and only one reason, an easy guess indeed. Profit.
There might be another factor, however. America does not like to look at the dark continent of pulsions and drives because they are the Devil and America is religious. America feels better if these horrible things are first cleansed and become objective entities, like a synaptic malfunction or a deficit in serotonin. So you'll get approval and half a mil to get a new picture of rat's brain activity but if you want to examine repressed homosexuality in paranoid schizophrenia you will get a smirk and 0 dollars.