Does Living In The Urban Environment Causes Mental Illness

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f sight." Housing psychiatrically ill persons away from the community diminished the sense of individual and corporate responsibility. A curtain of silence covered the large treatment sites identified with psychiatrically ill people (Carey 33-35).
Shifting responsibility to the federal government and to private resources began. The psychiatric provider community had emerged from the experience of treating psychiatrically disabled World War II veterans and was now thinking in terms of prevention. The federal government was beginning to think of extending social security benefits to severely disabled citizens in an entitlement program. Returning occupants of state hospitals to the communities would save state governments considerable sums of money.
Leaders in psychiatry, many of whom had left state-hospital employment for private practice, believed that the state hospitals had failed and that through a network of community mental health centers persons with severe and persistent mental illness could be returned home. They also believed that d...