The Shame of the Cities
LEONARD J. DUHL M.D.1
1 Special assistant to the Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D. C. 20410
The totality of urban life is the only rational focus for concern with mental illness. No longer can we be concerned solely with treatment institutions; our problem now embraces all of society and we must examine every aspect of it to determine what is conducive to mental health. And just as the psychiatric patient must participate in his own treatment, the citizenry of the cities must determine what they want and how to achieve it.
