Eric Reinhart

Eric Reinhart is a psychoanalytic clinician and political anthropologist of law, psychiatry, and public health.

Recent Articles

How to Tackle Police Violence and Mental Health at Once

Chicago’s Treatment Not Trauma policy could offer an exemplary case study for America—if city officials fully embrace it.

By Raeghn Draper and Eric Reinhart

How Community Health Workers Can End Mass Incarceration

To make U.S. communities safe, lawmakers must end mass incarceration and build systems for violence prevention through helping communities

By Eric Reinhart

Biden's Plan for More Police Won't Make America Safer

President Biden is calling for billions in additional funding for police. Evidence shows more policing does not make communities safer, but expanding healthcare access does

By Eric Reinhart

Prison Reform Is Undermining Public Health and Safety

For a few months in the fall of 2021, reports of unchecked violence, abuse, and neglect at the jail on New York City’s Rikers Island were plastered across national news before receding back into the...

By Eric Reinhart
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