> This review ignores the incredibly sordid history of institutionalization in the US and why it's so strongly hated. Many crimes were committed on otherwise in

> This review ignores the incredibly sordid history of institutionalization in the US and why it's so strongly hated. Many crimes were committed on otherwise innocent people under the guise of curing their mental illnesses. Lobotomies were popular to 'cure' people. Cocktails of drugs, inhumane experiments. You can look at what was done at Willowbrook State School to understand why this rapidly took the case. And it was not that long ago that things like 'being gay' was considered a mental illness. Everyone knows why "institutionalization in the US is so strongly hated". The question is whether the pendulum swung back too far the other way. The author is on a soapbox. But he isn't wrong: "destigmatization," pushed too far, is not without problems. It leads to a certain incoherence expressed well in the article. It's less clear what we should do about this in terms of policy.