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The Big Mental Hospital Is Obsolete

Title:: The Big Mental Hospital Is Obsolete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 He urged legislators at a public hearing of the New York State Committee on Public Health to abandon their outdated thinking about mental health problems and explore new alternatives.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