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"Help the patients to help themselves:" social relations of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center, 1914-1965
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"Help the patients to help themselves:" social relations of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center, 1914-1965
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Stanton
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Robyn
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H. Robyn Stanton
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Karen Caplan
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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2019-05
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The former Kings Park Psychiatric Center in Kings Park, New York was founded in 1885 as an extension of the Kings County Lunatic Asylum in a conscious effort to provide a more suitable environment for the mentally ill. This humanitarian foundation served as a catalyst for what would become a self-sustaining community. A common identity was forged between the hospital and the town of Kings Park - an identity which manifested itself in the form of a mutually beneficial relationship that developed and persisted throughout the institution's 111 years of operation. Drawing upon collections of local and regional newspapers and oral histories in conjunction with annual reports and state and federal legislation, this study explores the interconnectivity between the former state hospital and the community as it extended to the patient population. Specifically, the hospital's administrative and spatial arrangement allowed members of the lay public to form both direct and indirect connections with the mentally ill. Such localized dynamics are often obscured in institutional histories surrounding the lived experiences of mental hospitals in 19th- and 20th century America and are deserving of their own analysis. These relationships were encouraged and amended by the hospital's administrative operations, local infrastructure, economic interdependency, and social functions taking place within the public and institutional sphere. This paper also builds upon previous narratives chronicling the hospital's past, while emphasizing that the history of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center should be read as an evolving relationship between the hospital, the community and the patients they served and supported. Unearthing these social relations additionally allows the historical narrative associated with the Kings Park Psychiatric Center to incorporate itself in the broader histories of mental health care services at the state and national level across the twentieth century.
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History of medicine
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History
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Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- Kings Park -- History
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Robyn
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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