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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry , that got published in October of 2018? . The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker.