NOT WAVING, DROWNING: Correspondence: James Dunk.

These are only the latest in an endless string of inquiries, which is a striking and exhausting facet of the modern history of mental health and mental illness. They are borne by those like the woman Krasnostein calls Rebecca, who spent eighteen months in a carceral forensic mental health facility because the court could not make a ruling. As a historian, I was pleased to find that Sarah Krasnostein's Quarterly Essay about vulnerability in Australia is, as she writes, "always about history.". [Extracted from the article]