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Are Former Mental Patients Violent?

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Are Former Mental Patients Violent?

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Are Former Mental Patients Violent? 06/01/98 Our society (at least in the U.S.) continues to stigmatize mental illness. Mental patients and former mental patients are viewed with caution. Highly publicized cases of violence such as “the Unibomber” has resulted in a connection between mental illness and violence in the minds of millions. Are former mental patients really more violent than the general population? A recent study sheds light on this issue. Henry J. Steadman, Ph.D. and his colleagues followed about 1,136 former psychiatric patients from Pittsburgh, Worcester, Mass., and Kansas City, Mo. between the ages of 18 and 40 for one year after discharge. Interviews were conducted every 10 weeks with the patient and at least one person who was most familiar with their behavior in the community. A group of 519 Pittsburgh residents who had not been hospitalized and were culled from the neighborhoods to which the ex-patients returned served as a control group. The study’s results and co