The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems; Working Toward Solutions: Part 1. Defining the Crisis.

This column is the first in a series summarizing the 2-day Centennial Conference of the Austen Riggs Center. The conference framed problems in access to care and in the nature of care provided that are part of a mental health crisis in America, and then worked to propose solutions. This column focuses on framing the problems and on beginning to address what it might take to "bend the curve" in mental health outcomes.