“Bedlam moves in gentle and revelatory proximity to people striving to survive one of America’s worst public policy mistakes. Dr. Ken Rosenberg’s gifts as a reporter and bold storyteller are a godsend to the one in five American families grappling with serious mental illness.”

—Sally Jo Fifer, president and CEO, Independent Television Service

“Bedlam blazes new ground in that it shows all the multifaceted problems faced by the seriously mentally ill using their own words and experiences. It then brilliantly interweaves their narratives with savvy policy prescriptions.”

—DJ Jaffe, author of Insane Consequences and executive director, Mental Illness Policy Org.

“The United States has become the worst place in the world to have a severe mental illness. Ken Rosenberg describes this American nightmare with the stark vividness of painful firsthand experience—as brother, as psychiatrist, and as visionary documentary filmmaker who explains how we got into this barbaric mess and suggests commonsense, cost-effective ways to regain our societal sanity.”

—Allen Frances, MD, professor and chair emeritus, Duke Department of Psychiatry, chair of DSM-IV Task Force, and author of Saving Normal