A Break for Johnny Doe

A Break for Johnny Doe

Mental health

Mental illness

Institutional care

Medical paternalism

A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times Article about the rehabilitation of a child at the Children's Unit at Topeka Hospital. Advocates for a similar unit in Texas mental hospitals and for a focus on rehabilitation instead of life in an institution. Part of a series titled, "The Mentally Ill CAN Be Cured."

Louise Evans and Mary Tom Rasco, Globe-Times Staff Writers

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (Elizabeth F. Gardner Papers, 1933-1959: Box 2N192, Folder "Clippings 1941-1959")

Amarillo Globe-Times

January 11, 1956

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Newspaper article

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