In two recent posts, I recounted much of my 24-year journey working as a clinical psychologist at Eastern State Hospital, a public psychiatric hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. To catch up, my early years are covered in part 1 and the development of the Recovery Mall program is detailed in part 2. Even as our recovery-based programming garnered broad positive feedback from staff, patients and external organizations, we still dealt with the physical limitations of being in an aging 185-year old ...
Read moreMy 24 Years in a Psychiatric Hospital (part 3: a new beginning)