Discussing the resignation of Massachusetts' mental health commissioner who fashioned himself a radical but who Chamberlin perceived as being just as bad, if not worse, with better public relations. Lamenting the failure of deinstitutionalization to account for the real suffering of those people being impacted. Decrying Reagan's administration and the resulting federal policies. Affirming the beliefs that ex-inmates and their families should organize separately and that there is a conflict between mutual support and political action. Explaining the failure of the Dutch translation of Chamberlin's book, "On Our Own."
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