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Austen Riggs Center is a psychiatric treatment facility in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, founded by Austen Fox Riggs in 1913. It is known for its open psychiatric care, psychosomatic medicine, and therapeutic community approach.
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman, philanthropist and horse racing enthusiast. He inherited a fortune from his father and uncle, and donated to various causes, including Yale University, New York Hospital and New York Public Library.
Orville Blackwood (June 1960 – 28 August 1991) was a Jamaican-born British man, whose death at Broadmoor Hospital on 28 August 1991, following the administration of large doses of antipsychotic medications, resulted in wide media coverage after an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death.
Clifford Whittingham Beers was an American mental health activist and author who founded the National Mental Health Association and the Clifford Beers Clinic. He wrote an autobiographical book about his experiences in mental institutions and became an advocate for the rights of the mentally ill.
Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is a 1,541-bed hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, and the primary teaching hospital for Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Nursing. It is one of the largest and oldest hospitals in the U.S., with a history dating back to 1826.
Michael Laudor was a Yale Law School graduate who suffered from schizophrenia and stabbed his pregnant fiancée to death in 1998. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for life.
Donald Jay Cohen (September 5, 1940 – October 2, 2001) was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and director of the Yale Child Study Center and the Sterling Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology at the Yale School of Medicine.
Peter B. Neubauer was an Austrian-born American child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who studied the impact of genetics and environment on personality. He conducted a controversial twin study that separated infants and reunited them as adults without their knowledge or consent.