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Out of Sight . . . What had happened at St. Lawrence was a dramatic and belated revival of what is essentially an ancient idea: the mentally ill are sick, but still people, and they must be treated as people, if they are ever to return to society. For several centuries B.C., some...
"Security" was the watchword for more than half a century in 99% of both public and private mental hospitals. Gates were guarded to prevent escapes. An attending doctor or nurse had to go through what Dr. Herman B. Snow, director at St. Lawrence, calls "the ritual of the key" to...
The Sick Society. Only an insignificant number of patients were disturbed enough to justify a fraction of these precautions. It was society itself that was insecure and full of irrational fears of what the mentally ill might do.
When Dr. Hunt began opening more doors and taking bars off windows, Dutchess neighbors were worried that AWOL patients would commit sex offenses or crimes of violence. In two years, there has been no such incident. Now Dr. Hunt challenges civic groups: "What Dutchess County community of more than 5...
Locked Out. Private hospitals are generally even more reluctant than the states to unlock doors, for fear of damaging incidents and lawsuits. Yet in San Francisco, at the opposite extreme in size from the giant state hospitals, a tiny (14-bed) unit at Stanford Hospital* applies the open-door system...