Institutionalization: Margie Cortez, Video Transcript Margie Cortez: I arrived here when I was seven. I had fallen asleep in the back seat and just as I woke up I saw the crowns of very full manicured trees. And I popped my head above the window, and saw a big sign...
Institutionalization: Patient Labor, Video Transcript King Pedlar: Well, when I came here in ’57, a good portion of the labor force were patients. King Pedlar worked the night shift as an attendant on a geriatric ward for 27 years. King Pedlar: And I, from what I...
Institutionalization: Hospital Hierarchy, Video Transcript Sy Weissman: There was a hierarchy at Kings Park. There were therapy aides, there were other clinicians, there were social workers. The psychiatrists were always the head of the clinical team. Dr. Seymour...
Institutionalization: Dr Lehnhoff and Ron Jackson, Video Transcript Lucy Winer: You told me that when you first came to the hospital you’d never seen any place so beautiful. Dr Lehnhoff: You see a friend took me. It was February. We drove down the boulevard, and I saw...
Institutionalization: Stories From The Hospital, Video Transcript Lucy Winer: Certain bits of information were repeated again and again. Like that Long Island used to be called “the capital of state hospitals in the U.S.” Al Cibelli: Most of the states throughout the...
