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The Big Mental Hospital Is Obsolete

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Identifier: 101743403X10
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Dates

  • Creation: 28 January 1958

Extent

13 pages

Creator

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 He urged legislators at a public hearing of the New York State Committee on Public Health to abandon their outdated thinking about mental health problems and explore new alternatives.

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English

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