In 2017, Dr Insel understood that this transfer of funds had been a mistake 1 :Thomas Insel, MD, gets several important things right in his book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health. He is right that the public mental illness treatment system in the US is a mess and inferior to most western European countries. But he is wrong about one important issue—the role of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Nor was NIMH intended to organize or deliver mental health services; that was the responsibility of state and local government and, later, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Until NIMH understands this, our path from mental illness to mental health will be largely uphill.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2022 15:10 UTC