• • • Ablow shrugged—A look back at America’s mental health breakdown 15 years ago 
Keith Ablow, FOXNews.com Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  | Reprint of a Psychiatric Times article from 1997.It was a bad combination, I'll allow that. The call from the emergency room reached me the Saturday morning after I had finished reading Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep, partly because I finally reached page 1,168 around midnight, partly because I couldn't get my mind off John Galt, Hank Rearden, Francisco d'Anconia, Dagny Taggart and the rest of Rand's characters. Before I drifted off, I was already drawing parallels between the current state of psychiatry and Rand's fictional world in which the mind is denigrated, and autonomy and free will nearly stamped out.   Published: 2012-12-30