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Peter Stastny, MD and Darby Penney, MLS

Peter Stastny is a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker in New York, NY. Darby Penney, an ex–patient activist, is a senior research associate with Advocates for Human Potential, Albany, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Darby Penney, Senior Research Associate, Advocates for Human Potential, 324 Broadway, Albany, NY 12207 (e-mail: darby@capital.net).

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	INTRODUCTION

 
THE ATTIC AT WILLARD STATE Hospital in the village of Willard in upstate New York was lit by a beam of sunlight streaming between rows of wooden racks filled with suitcases—men’s on the left side, women’s on the right—alphabetized, labeled, and covered by thick dust and bird droppings. They had been untouched for many years. It was 1995, and the hospital was closing. The belongings, once owned by nearly 300 patients from the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries, were salvaged, shedding some light on the stories they brought to the hospital—stories doomed to be forgotten if not for this . . . [Full Text]

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