> The system was rife with abuse and cruelty. As I pointed out in an earlier thread, the prevailing opinion seems to be that the institutions were the source o

> The system was rife with abuse and cruelty. As I pointed out in an earlier thread, the prevailing opinion seems to be that the institutions were the source of abuse and cruelty, and that if we could only separate the providers and treatments from the institutions, then we would be magically wonderfully free of future abuse and cruelty. Is it any wonder that that hasn't exactly panned out? Now our mental institutions are simply borderless and invisible. There's nothing new under the sun.