Within our lifetimes we have made amazing advances in the treatment of the mentally ill. In the United States more than 800,000 patients have been freed from the warehouses of state mental hospitals, many dramatically awakened from the nightmare of psychotic illness. The successful treatment for the vast majority of those with serious mental illness has become the new norm. With the appropriate use of new psychiatric drugs plus improved psychotherapeutic techniques, we have seen nearly magical improvement, even in those thought to be untreatable. Apart from those whose hallucinations,...