Bedlam on the streets

By Michael Winerip

Maybe they should have just stenciled it in large letters on Andrew Goldstein's forehead: ''ticking time bomb. suffers schizophrenia. if off medication, run for cover!'' The news accounts of his arrest for pushing Kendra Webdale under a subway train in New York that first Sunday afternoon in January must have sent a cold shiver through the hundreds of psychiatrists, therapists and social workers who had treated this seriously mentally ill man.

Click here for full article.