Most Violence Is Not Caused by Mental Illness

Published: June 8, 2022, 9:45 a.m.

b'After a series of deadly mass shootings in the United States, the National Rifle Association and some Republican leaders and conservatives are pointing to mental illness.\\n\\nThis approach raises a question: How can the mental health system stop gun violence when mental illness is so rarely the cause of it?\\n\\nWe revisit a conversation from 2018 with a psychiatrist who is wrestling with that challenge.\\n\\nGuest: Dr. Amy Barnhorst, the vice chairwoman of community psychiatry at the University of California, Davis.'