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According to OMH, there are fewer than 5,000 people residing in its psychiatric centers, compared with roughly 93,000 during the 1950s. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...
This psychiatric hospital shuttered in 1973. ... and performed a number of lobotomies in 1949 and 1950. But conventions surrounding mental health care began changing in the 1950s and 1960s, ...
Nationwide, states closed 62 psychiatric hospitals between 1997 and 2015 and since the 1950s, there has been a 91% decrease in state beds, according to the National Association of State Mental ...