A bracing reexamination of the idea of mental illness One in five Americans will experience mental illness. Sixty percent will not seek treatment, for fear of shame and discrimination. This is the stigma of mental illness, and it is nothing short of a public health crisis. In The Road Out of Bedlam , Roy Richard Grinker argues that we are at the cusp of ending the long-standing marginalization of the mentally ill that began in the early days of capitalism...