Comment by barry-cotter

> Near the end of the book, Rosen writes “Violence and mental illness have been legally entangled ever since dangerousness, rather than illness, became the necessary prerequisite for hospitalization.” And this really is the heart of it: in an effort to ensure the autonomy and rights of those with mental illness, we created a system where you have to be violent to be taken seriously, and where absent violence the people who love you most and know you best have no recourse for forcing you into treatment when you desperately need it. If ever there’s been a tragedy of good intentions, there it is. The Best Minds is a chronicle of that tragedy. I think it’s the best book about mental illness I’ve ever read.