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The events described are conceptualized in terms of the struggle for control of the Mental Health Center and as steps in the transfer of power from a white middle-class medical school to a ghetto population. Implications of the use of local citizens as mental health workers are emphasized.
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he was formerly Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Child), Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director, Child Psychiatry, Lincoln Hospital, New York.
She was formerly Assistant Director, Child Psychiatry, Lincoln Hospital.
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Shaw, R., Eagle, C.J. Programmed failure: The Lincoln Hospital story. Community Ment Health J 7, 255–263 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434434
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