The former director of the National Institute for Mental Health no longer assumes that the future of mental health is a new drug or device. Instead, he argues for better coordination of existing therapies.
Christie Hemm Klok for The Wall Street JournalAs the director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015, Thomas Insel, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, oversaw more than $20 billion in grants for research on human behavior and the brain. “The scientific progress in our field has been stunning,” he observes. “But the public-health outcomes got worse.
In his new book “Healing,” Dr. Insel, 70, writes that during his tenure as the “nation’s psychiatrist,” the U.S. suicide rate climbed 33%, overdose deaths tripled, and rates of poverty, homelessness and incarceration among people with brain disorders went up. Today suicide claims more than 47,000 lives a year, three times as many as homicide, and the rate continues to rise in the U.S. even as it is falling in nearly every other country.
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