2 FEB 2018 · I discuss California's current enormous mental health service delivery issues in the state prison population, then Texas' admirable current progress and ambitious long term effort to almost completely rebuild its state wide mental health system

16 SEP 2017 · An overview history of waves of reform, the good and not so good consequences, benefits and failings of each,from the 1700's to the modern ages of treatments leading to outlining the enormous social we now universally face, linked to consideration of the question the rise of the mass shooting epidemic as likely unfortunately related.

12 AUG 2017 · My apologies for two two month hiatus due to illness. This episode will summarize the early history of treatment of the chronically mentally ill in more overview fashion. Then I will start the future direction of this podcast transitioning into the early starts of reform of mental health service delivery, failed efforts of the Kennedy-Johnson era, the second failure to handle the consequences of deinstitutionalization in the last forty years. Finally, I will start the lay the foundational history for focusing in the future on the last 20 more years' faltering and then growing modern efforts to face the realities of modern effective comprehensive mental health reform that is facing the entire country at present.

2 JUL 2017 · Review from a psychiatric provider's viewpoint of the recently emerged Republican Senate's health care legislation, with an emphasis on its possible effects on mental health coverage and an attempt at an explanation of its provisions and economic impact on national coverage issues.