Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? (2010)

ALL 09/28/2010 (en) Documentary 31 Min
  • Release
    09/28/2010
  • Production
    Lagniappe Films
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  • Original title
    Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

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.

  1. Charles Kiselyak

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Charles Kiselyak

    Producer



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Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? (2010) 31 Min

ALL 09/28/2010 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 09/28/2010
  • Production
    Lagniappe Films
  • Original title Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Charles Kiselyak

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Denise Cochran

    Editor

  4. Charles Kiselyak

    Producer