Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

  • Movie
  • 2010
  • 31m
  • Documentary

Psychiatrist Dr. Dean Brooks, who appears in the film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and others discuss how jails and prisons have become our new asylums and how community care, especially inadequately funded community care, is failing to help people. They also discuss the need for what his granddaughter, Dr. Ulista Brooks, describes as “true asylums” — the construction of new modern mental hospitals, and other important issues regarding care for the mentally ill.

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Director
Charles Kiselyak
Starring
Dr. Ulista Hoover, Dr. Ulista Brooks, Dr. Arthur E. Tolan, Michael Douglas

Cast

  • Dr. Ulista Hoover

    Self

  • Dr. Ulista Brooks

  • Dr. Arthur E. Tolan

    Self

  • Michael Douglas

    Michael Douglas

    Self

  • Hazel Patton

    Self

  • Linda Hammond

    Self

  • Rex Gorger

    Self

  • Dean R. Brooks

    Dean R. Brooks

    Self - as Dr. Dean R. Brooks

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