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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

They constructed imagined stories about the persons life, piecing together details based on what they observed during dissection. However, there was a small minoritytwo students, in factwho were able to hold these two perspectives together. They approached dissection almost as a relational process.