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SOME LINKS ABOUT THE DAMMASCH PROJECT:
Wikipedias listing for dammasch state hospital Dennis Hamiltons diary pages on his experience as a patient at Dammasch Willamette Weeks Article on mental health care in Oregon All Cracked Up and No Place to Go An Aerial View of Dammasch David Maisels images of Oregon State Hospital David Maisels images of the copper crematorium cans at Oregon State Hospital Mary Ellen Marks photographs of the women in Ward 81 (Oregon State Hospital) An interesting article on eugenics at Dammasch A brief history of mental health institutions, written by the state of Oregon Information on Costa Pacific, the developers who bought Dammasch Peter Breggin
LINKS TO INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY:
Electroboy -a former electroshock recipient who gives a bit of history and sketches out both sides of the ECT controversy.
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