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		<title>A violent stigma for mentally ill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Irish Times By Carl O&#8217;Brien Monday, August 24, 2010 Psychiatric nurses argue that more staff are needed to manage violent patients – but are patients with mental illness any more violent than the rest of the community? When the union representing psychiatric nurses launched a campaign for extra staff earlier this month, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madness Radio: Bipolar Medication Myths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Madness Radio Thursday, August 26, 2010 Is bipolar disorder a disease? Can medications like lithium correct chemical imbalances and stabilize mood? Do psychiatric drugs act completely differently on the brain than recreational drugs? UK psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, author of The Myth Of The Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment, discusses how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Village Hill picks up steam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Gazette by Chad Cain Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Off the Beat: Village Hill picks up steam, despite economy An anemic economy may have slowed momentum at Village Hill Northampton, but efforts to develop the former state hospital grounds into a mix of homes and businesses is picking up steam this summer. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl raises money for homeless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Republican by Fred Contrada Friday, August 13, 2010 Katie D. Lusnia, of Easthampton, was soaking up the atmosphere at the homeless shelter known as the Grove Street Inn. The couch where she and her mother sat was comfortable, the wall behind them hung with photographs donated by local artists. Sunshine poured in through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contract issued for James House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Republican By Fred Contrada Wednesday, August 13, 2010 The James House, a 19th century building that some feared would become a white elephant for the city, is about to complete its transformation to an adult learning center. Teri A. Anderson, Northampton’s Economic and Community Development Coordinator, said this week that the city has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://northamptonstatehospital.com/archives/829</link>
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		<title>Rust, decay shadow Shaw&#8217;s Motel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Republican By Fred Contrada Friday, August 06, 2010 The Shaw’s we know was a place where lone men and women with mental-health problems could find some semblance of a home. People down on their luck could get a decent bed and some privacy at Shaw’s. There have been drifters and imbibers, sometimes on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooley Dickinson transfers behavioral health services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Republican By Fred Contrada Thursday, July 29, 2010 Following a trend that has seen other hospitals sever their connections with outpatient mental health and substance abuse programs, Cooley Dickinson Hospital is turning over its behavioral health services to a nonprofit provider. Clinical and Support Options, a Greenfield-based agency, will assume management of Cooley [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://northamptonstatehospital.com/archives/753</link>
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		<title>Narratives posted.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve posted the first Narrative, as well as a preview of the second: Spoken Patricia In the late 1960&#8242;s a mother moves to the area to raise her family and through tragedy comes to know the State Hospital. Filmed Preview: Steven An attorney vows never to leave Northampton State Hospital until he can help close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://northamptonstatehospital.com/archives/714</link>
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		<title>On Narratives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most important element of this project is the Narratives. The telling of individual stories is the highest moral imperative and at times I feel that all other information and data is meant only to clarify, contextualize, and support this initiative. The Narratives also happen to be the most energy intensive element to produce. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://northamptonstatehospital.com/archives/624</link>
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		<title>Finding Home release party at Jones Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Amherst Bulletin By Suzanne Wilson Thursday, May 21, 2010 It&#8217;s a safe bet that no one who lived in this area in the 1970s and 1980s was unaware of the program called deinstitutionalization. The mouthful of a term referred to the decision to end the long-accepted practice of warehousing people with mental disabilities [...]]]></description>
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