The heart of "Madness in the Streets" is an account of how anti-psychiatry lawyers (e.g., ACLU, Mental Health Law Project) and a small group of radical ex-patients have colluded to make it increasingly difficult to hospitalize or treat mentally ill individuals in need of care. The history of this movement, which is still very much alive, has not heretofore been written, and it is disturbing indeed. The lawyers, write Isaac and Armat, "are practicing medicine with the wrong graduate degree," creating a situation where "the right to be crazy" has become the law of the land.
