Deegan, Patricia E.
[Washington, D.C.] : Center for Mental Health Services, 2006, c2004.
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Notes:
- DVD.
- Created by Pat Deegan and Terry Strecker directed by Terry Strecker produced by Pat Deegan with Troy Film Works.
- Host, Pat Deegan testimonials by former patients Ed, Christopher, George, Christen, Gus, Lynne and Al.
- In the light of the Supreme Court’s Olmstead Decision (1999), ex-patient film-makers Deegan and Strecker depict the lives of eight people with very significant histories of institutionalization who make their journeys from inside nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals into full community inclusion on the outside. In the introduction to the film Deegan discusses the four stages of this journey: Becoming institutionalized (Inside out), Turning points (Inside out), Turmoil to self direction (Outside in), and Community integration (Outside in) before an audience of people with psychiatric disabilities at Pilgrim State Hospital.
- Inside outside (49 min.) — Introduction to the film (19 min.)
Subjects:
- Psychiatric hospital patients — Biography.
- Psychiatric hospital patients — Rehabilitation — Case studies.
- Psychiatric hospital care.
- Psychiatric hospitals — Admission and discharge.
- Alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization.
- Therapeutic communities.
- Ex-mental patients — Case studies.
Requested by Hensky, M