It was when the worlds of mental health politics, economics, science, advocacy, and patienthood that we still live in today came of age; it was when the anger and outrage of medical discrimination against mental illness and addiction was first crystallized. The Decade of the Brain had been declared in mid-1989, and in theory, the timing couldn’t have been better. The idea was to do what we are still trying to do today—force the federal agencies and powerful institutions and clinicians and companies that focus on neurological illness and psychiatric illness to work together more and admit they
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