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The Sunday Story: Lost Mental Hospitals, Lost Patients

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This chapter examines the historical significance of Northern State psychiatric hospital, highlighting its role in the evolution of mental healthcare. It contrasts the hospital's founding principles of rehabilitation through work with the challenges posed by deinstitutionalization and the subsequent reduction of psychiatric services.

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