Thomas Insel, MD, psychiatrist, neuroscientist and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), talks about his acclaimed book, "Healing - Our Path From Mental Illness
to Mental Health", that discribes the current
mental health care crisis in the United States. In clear detail, using extensive
research and narratives, many of them personal, he defines the social
factors that have led to this crisis. Dr. Insel asserts that U.S. society already
has the tools necessary to deal with and even eradicate this crisis. Educating
the public, he believes, and lessening or eliminating the stigma attached to
mental illness will allow the nation to properly arrange—and utilize to their
fullest—the resources that are already available, thus allowing healing instead
of continually providing expensive, temporary patches.
