Murphy
Weighs
In
on
Dr.
Phil's
Interview
with
Shelley
Duvall
For
Immediate
Release: November
23,
2016
Contact: Carly
Atchison 202.225.2301
Washington,
D.C.
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In
a
recorded
interview
that
aired
last
Friday
on
the
Dr.Phil
Show,
actress
Shelley
Duvall
discussed
her
mental
illness
and
need
for
help.
Best
known
for
her
role
in
“The
Shining”
(1980),
the
actress
now
displays
manifest
symptoms
of
serious
mental
illness.
Congressman
Murphy
weighed
in:
“I’ve
had
the
opportunity
to
examine
the
footage
of
the
Shelley
Duvall
interview
on
Dr.
Phil
and
I’m
astounded
that
this
was
broadcast
under
the
banner
of
entertainment.
It
reflects
a
woman
in
need
of
psychiatric
medical
care
who
lacked
the
basic
executive
functioning
to
understand
the
implications
of
her
‘consent.’
This
should
not
have
been
pursued
nor
aired.
Clearly
she
was
not
capable
of
consenting
to
this
television
experience
due
to
her
diminished
cognitive
capacity.
Ms.
Duvall
has
a
basic
right
to
privacy
and
the
way
in
which
she
was
exploited
for
afternoon
entertainment
is
appalling.
“Our
society
continues
to
exploit
Americans
experiencing
mental
illness.
Even
worse,
we
set
them
up
for
public
mockery
and
ridicule.
We
will
only
break
down
the
stigma
of
mental
illness
by
ending
the
lurid
exploitation
of
the
mentally
ill
and
focus
on
educating
the
public
about
brain
illness
as
a
medical
condition
and
how
patients,
when
treated
at
the
right
time
in
the
appropriate
care
setting,
can
and
do
recover.
Unfortunately,
our
laws,
systems
and
society
allow
the
most
vulnerable
to
end
up
cycling
in
and
out
of
emergency
rooms,
homeless,
in
jail
or
in
a
morgue.
“One
of
the
greatest
challenges
we
face
in
overhauling
our
broken
system
is
helping
those
in
psychiatric
crisis
access
medical
care.
All
too
often
patients,
because
of
their
psychosis,
refuse
to
participate
in
life-saving
treatment.
This
interview
highlights
the
challenge
of
treating
those
who
don’t
understand
the
critical
nature
of
their
illness
and
often
refuse
help,
but
yet
are
also
those
very
patients
who
need
treatment
the
most.
“My
Helping
Families
in
Mental
Health
Crisis
Act
tackles
this
challenge
head-on
by
investing
and
expanding
intensive
community-based
approaches
like
Assisted
Outpatient
Treatment
for
individuals
with
serious
mental
illnesses.
“Ms.
Duvall’s
refusal
to
participate
in
treatment
reflects
the
desperate
need
to
advance
models
of
care
designed
for
treatment-resistant
patients.
These
evidence-based,
clinically
successful
programs
allow
healthcare
teams
to
engage
psychiatric
patients
where
they
are
most
comfortable
and
most
likely
to
follow
through
with
treatment,
enabling
them
to
succeed
in
their
recovery.
Rather
than
wait
for
patients
in
the
midst
of
a
psychiatric
crisis
to
fill
up
emergency
rooms,
and
often
sent
out
of
the
hospital
without
receiving
treatment,
we
need
to
provide
options
for
getting
the
treatment
to
those
who
need
it
most.
“It's
time
that
we
right
the
wrongs
in
our
nation’s
treatment
of
the
mentally
ill
and
enact
the
Helping
Families
in
Mental
Health
Crisis
Act.”
Congressman
Murphy,
a
practicing
psychologist
with
over
40
years
of
experience
in
the
field,
has
authored
the
most
comprehensive
crisis
mental
health
reform
bill
in
a
half-century,
the
Helping
Families
in
Mental
Health
Crisis
Act
(H.R.
2646).
Learn
more
about
his
bill
here.
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