Street psychiatry is a burgeoning field in L.A. But is it enough to help the thousands of Angelenos who live with severe mental illness?
It’s a staggering number of people living unsheltered with some of the most debilitating conditions.‘Being homeless is a form of insanity’
Ami Tallman and her dog Lobo live in a trailer parked in a backyard. She’s been a painter for 40 years. People tell her she’s a history painter. “I mean, it seems like you could offer them a place that they could get treatment, that they could stay that wasn’t carceral or contingent on them following a specific course of treatment that’s against their will,” Tallman said.
At the team’s next stop, a large park in the Los Feliz neighborhood, Tifani Caesar sits up against a large tree. A small sign that reads “Aloha” hangs from the trunk behind her. Caesar said she believes there is a kind of tyranny coming from the neglect of people living with mental illness. “To put that into context, there are clearly people who are on the street who are disconnected from services ... Those people are not going to be captured by our study,” Rountree told LAist.
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