The shame of the States

The shame of the States

by Albert Deutsch

Part of Mental illness and social policy: the American experience

1948
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Expose on the deplorable conditions in state mental hospitals, including overcrowding, understaffing, inadequate budgets, lack of adequate treatment facilities, etc. It consists mostly of pieces written for the New York newspaper PM and its successor the Star, as well as some less journalistic content, written from 1940-1948.

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