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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.

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Dr. Ulista HooverDr. Ulista HooverSelf
  • Photo of Dr. Ulista BrooksDr. Ulista Brooks
  • Photo of Dr. Arthur E. TolanDr. Arthur E. TolanSelf
  • Photo of Michael DouglasMichael DouglasSelf
  • Photo of Hazel PattonHazel PattonSelf
  • Photo of Linda HammondLinda HammondSelf
  • Photo of Rex GorgerRex GorgerSelf
  • Photo of Dean R. BrooksDean R. BrooksSelf - as Dr. Dean R. Brooks

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