Life in the Hospital Before Deinstitutionalization

Life in the Hospital Before Deinstitutionalization

Does anyone know what people who actually used mental health services were saying in Oregon before, during, and after the period of the greatest changes ever in mental health in this state and everywhere else? Was anyone listening or even asking? This radical change took place between 1950 and 1985, when the system drastically reduced the number of people who had been in state hospitals and sent them back into their communities. That change is d…