Treatment, Past and Present, in the Oregon State Hospital Museum

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The New York Times covers Dean Brooks and the new Museum of Mental Health at the Oregon State Hospital, where “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was shot. Brooks, the article says, “minces no words when he says that mental health treatment in years past had its flaws. But anyone looking back, he said in an interview, should also look hard at the present… Today, he said, prisons have taken over the job, with barely a pretense of treatment.”

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Interview – Dean Brooks from Mad in America on Vimeo.

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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He and his partner, Luisa Putnam, joined by their mutual interest in working with trauma and psychosis, studied Open Dialogue in Finland and Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the UK in order to practice and teach as a team. In 2011, they joined with Robert Whitaker to found the Mad in America website

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