From Paginated Thoughts: The usual journalistic narrative about abuse in psychiatric wards focuses on funding and staffing shortages, as well as overcrowding and bed shortages, rather than questioning the use of psychiatric wards as the main method of crisis care and the power dynamics that lead to psych ward abuse.
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