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...ADDITION to these public mental health centers and cooperative, public-private efforts, there are still many small-scale, private mental health projects in the Cambridge-Somerville Area. These include Harvard's Clinical Psychology Program (CPP), the Cambridge-port Problem Center, Wellmet Halfway House for ex-mental patients, the Mental Patients' Liberation Front's informal after-care group, and the Neighborhood House after-care program for ex-mental patients...
...organizations receiving money from the Drive, only Phillips Brooks House Association and the Wellmet Project, a half-way house for mental patients, were on last year's list of recommended charities...
...girls are moving to other brick dorms rather than into off-campus houses," Carolyn Buhl, head resident of Holmes, said yesterday. Two girls have moved to Barnard, two to Eliot, two to Jordan W, five to Bertram, one to Briggs, and one to Wellmet, a half-way house for mental patients. These dorms are all much smaller than Holmes...
...first glance, life at Wellmet for a student might seem to be a continual draining. How can a student cope with academic and personal problems when residents intrude on him with requests to hear a poem, to amuse them, to reassure them, to discuss their troubles? What keeps the students going through the constant frictions, the harrassments not only of the residents but also of the other students in the crowded quarters? How can they resist the barrage against their emotions and personalities...
...students speak of escaping the alienation they feel elsewhere, of negating the impersonalization. But these are big words for an accumulation of small satisfactions. Jean Carmel thinks that because the students spend their semester at Wellmet in an atmosphere of real tragedy they are forced to draw upon their own deepest experiences to respond to and exercise judgment on residents. The responsibility is similar to that of determining the fate of a family member. "Certainly they possess idealism and altruism," she says, "but their most striking characteristic is a belief that they can find answers themselves. They do. They...