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okiedokie said:

Alex, has this been your experience in a psychiatric hospital? If yes, I'm really sorry. That sounds barbaric and not at all my experience working in psych hospitals, current or past, although some definitely are better than others.
Take care,
Okie

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I must say that Alex's experience is not dissimilar to mine. My last hospital experience was in 1990, so things may have changed since then. But the 1990 hospital was one of the prestige institutions in the city, and associated with a university. Not everything which has status and prestige merits it.

I really am enjoying this thread. I didn't know there were so many "rebels" here. It's nice to hear familiar names such as Alice Miller, Dr. Mosher, Judi Chamberlain...