Meds Alone Couldn't Bring Robert Back

摘要

When my brother Robert arrived at Bronx Psychiatric Center in 1998, Dr. Alvin Pam, chief of psychology, told me it was the consensus of the staff that Robert would never be able to live without supervision, and if discharged, was destined to be repeatedly rehospitalized. By this point in time, my brother had been a patient in the New York state mental-health system for nearly 40 years, and had been given nearly every antipsychotic medication known to humankind.