history of mental illness

Back in 1998, while doing research for an article, the author discovered some medical studies that revealed that the outcomes for people in the United States with schizophrenia have worsened over the past 25 years. Even more puzzling, the outcomes in the United States and other developed countries are much worse than in the poor countries of the world. Why would that be so? This question provided the impetus for Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill which examines the social and medical history of mental illness in the United States from