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...wrapped packages on a storeroom shelf. The resulting dissatisfaction drives some to drop out, to see a psychiatrist, or to resignation; others overcome it by finding new perspectives or new friends. One group of students have found a gutsy life in a cramped little house near Inman Square called Wellmet...
...Wellmet, Harvard and Radcliffe students live with mental patients and try to rescue them for society. How a student is motivated for so total a commitment is a fascinating question, just as are the patients' own stories...
...group which has been called "seeking academic credit for sadism." The course's intensity is tempered by its meeting only three hours a week; the imagination quails at the idea of a similarly piercing exploration extended to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Yet that is what Wellmet sometimes seems like, with a difference--roughly half the group has spent up to 20 years in mental institutions...
Loosely termed a halfway house, Wellmet is unique both in its student staff and in its patients, carefully referred to as residents. The project was begun seven years ago by Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers on the Phillips Brooks House hospitals committee who decided that their efforts would be most useful with mental patients. The students moved from the psvchiatric division of Massachusetts General Hospital to the mammoth wasteland of the Metropolitan State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where in all but a few wards the ratio of patients to psychiatrists is about 600 to 1. The volunteers discovered that patients...
That first year was the roughest. Neither Harvard nor Radcliffe would let students live with the patients, and the house mysteriously burned down. But more funds were raised, the house at 11 Marie Avenue was bought, and first Radcliffe, then Harvard, capitulated. The students moved in, and Wellmet began to have a past and a future...