I have admittedly not read Stephen Pinker but I have heard him speak. The impression I left with is that the improvements he is discussing are at the macro leve

I have admittedly not read Stephen Pinker but I have heard him speak. The impression I left with is that the improvements he is discussing are at the macro level. The fact that we now have science based, effective mental health services at all is, in fact, a large improvement over the past.