Leah G. Pope, PhD (New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University)
Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD (Yale School of Medicine)
Fay Owens (Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project)
Abstract: Individuals experiencing difficulties while living with a mental health diagnosis are often picked up by law enforcement. They are then taken – as if by coin toss – either to jail or to a hospital. Recent policies in the United States have played a hand in deepening mental health stigma and widening the gap between care that is needed and imposed interventions. This session will explore the way mental illness has routinely been both medicalized and criminalized, the impact of incarceration on mental health at large, and what work is being done to promote harm reduction in New York City and beyond.
Sponsored by the Columbia University Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics
Location and Address
Online