Letter from Project Release to the Village Voice

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Project Release to the Village Voice
Description:
Letter to the editor criticizing the slanderous and alarmist tone of an article, titled "State Abandons Mentally Ill to City Streets," on mental patients and deinstitutionalization which, in an effort to attack the Department of Mental Hygiene and the New York SRO housing program, further stigmatizes and blames the victims of the mental health system. References the issue of "Sanism."
Creator:
Project Release
Addressee:
Village voice (Greenwich Village, New York, N.Y.)
Date:
November 29, 1977
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 3 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Cynthia Miller Papers
Subjects:
Ex-mental patients
Mentally ill--Deinstitutionalization
Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program (N.Y.)
Stigma (Social psychology)
Village voice (Greenwich Village, New York, N.Y.)
Extent:
2 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums869-b003-f006-i017
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums869-b003-f006-i017