Please join us for the next session in our Ethics Grand Rounds 2022/23 series, entitled: Medicalizing and Criminalizing Mental Health, on May 2, 2023 at 12 p.m. ET.
This session will continue the series' theme of examining the topic of incarceration through the lens of health justice. Featuring speakers:
- Leah G. Pope, PhD, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University.
- Kimberly Sue, MD PhD, Yale School of Medicine.
- Fay Owens, Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project.
Moderated by Division Chief Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD.
Abstract: Individuals experiencing difficulties while living with a mental health diagnosis are often picked up by law enforcement. They are then taken – as if by coin toss – either to jail or to a hospital. Recent policies in the United States have played a hand in deepening mental health stigma and widening the gap between care that is needed and imposed interventions. This session will explore the way mental illness has routinely been both medicalized and criminalized, the impact of incarceration on mental health at large, and what work is being done to promote harm reduction in New York City and beyond.
