Offering specific criticisms of Weisberg's film, "Back Wards to Back Streets" on the circumstances of former mental patients after deinstitutionalization. Acknowledging that the film was made with compassion and concern but lamenting the lack of representation of patient-controlled alternatives and the producer's acceptance of what Chamberlin refers to as "a psychiatric rewriting of history." Outlining specific criticisms of programs depicted in the film. Including a photocopied article by Ronald McMillen called, "In the Public Eye," about psychiatry in mass media.
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