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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

In her mid-twenties, KK learned that her life-changing release from that hospital had come about, at least in part, due to a Protection & Advocacy organization that had sent in peers to talk with patients at the institution and reported on abuses there. Those sound like constructive developments.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

You see this in modern medical education: Gross anatomy where students dissect cadaversis placed at the very beginning of medical school. I was already studying these historical patterns, but I became interested in how they play out today , specifically in medical education. Because it serves as a socialization process.