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

Mad in America

For example, in recent years P&As have exposed and opposed excessive use of restraints at New Yorks Bellevue hospital , over-representation of Black residents in psychiatric incarceration in Californias Alameda County , and abusive forced stripping in Washington facilities. 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

After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized. They constructed imagined stories about the persons life, piecing together details based on what they observed during dissection. I spent a week in the hospital, undergoing testswaiting, thinking.