A handful of friends and family work in mental health professions. They're almost unanimous in the idea that the public mental hospitals in the United States were better than what we have now. (Private care and homelessness AFAIK)
Are there examples of private mental health care in the real world? Are there theories on how this can work in a libertarian society?
I was not able to find anything but criticisms and research that tries to justify tax-propped systems.