Psychiatrist and Human Rights Activist Dr. Robert Okin Wants All Americans to See the Faces and Listen to the Stories of Our Society’s Most Overlooked Outcasts: The Mentally Ill and Homeless http://www.robertokinmd.com   From L.A. to Philly to Miami, they’re out there—pushing their carts, digging through garbage, sleeping on park benches, sometimes ranting about nonsense to no one. They often look and sound crazy, smell bad, and make us uneasy, so we avoid them. We know better intellectually, yet most of us shun people suffering from homelessness and mental illness because we view them as deeply flawed—somehow less human than the rest of us.   As part of his career devoted to the mentally disabled, Dr. Robert Okin decided to use a powerful artistic medium to … [Read more...]