The Big Mental Hospital Is Obsolete
- Title:
- The Big Mental Hospital Is Obsolete
- Creator:
- Gorman, Mike
- Date:
- 28 January 1958
- Description:
- Gorman argued that huge mental hospitals had never been cost-effective or good for patients, and the advent of new tranquilizing drugs would make them even less defensible. He urged legislators at a public hearing of the New York State Committee on Public Health to abandon their outdated thinking about mental health problems and explore new alternatives.
- Location:
- Box: 10. Folder: 27
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Genre:
- Speeches
- Subject:
- Community Mental Health Services
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 13 pages
- Language:
- English
- Legacy ID:
- TGBBBM
- NLM ID:
- 101743403X10
- Profiles Collection:
- The Mike Gorman Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743403X10
- Story Section:
- A Full-time Activist: The National Committee Against Mental Illness, 1953-1963