1955: The number of mentally ill patients in public psychiatric hospitals peaks at 560,000.

1962: The publication of Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” further critiques the institutionalized mental healthcare system.

1963: The Community Mental Health Act provides federal funding for community-based care and treatment facilities.

1965: Medicaid excludes coverage for people in “institutions for mental diseases,” incentivizing states to move patients out of state mental hospitals and into nursing homes and general hospitals.

1967: California passes the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, making involuntary hospitalization more difficult and contributing to the decline of institutionalized care.

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