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1. Where did the mental hygiene movement find the most success? Why was there not enough emphasis put on establishing equitable services/treatments and opportunities for black physicians and patients at an institution like St. Elizabeth's which advertised itself as being progressive and informative? - Joey
2. Had Howard Hawkins's case played out differently (and those involved were charged with murder), do you think St. Elizabeth's would have taken more authoritative action towards addressing the discrepancies in methods and overall treatment of African American patients? - Joey
1. Will the prioritization of early intervention in order to prevent more severe mental health issues lead to more of a focus on children's health care? - Morgan
2. With the emphasis put on one's family/friends' ability to provide for and take care of them, how does class impact the programs set up to allow one to leave the hospital – outpatient, parole, aftercare, etc? - Morgan
1. Mental hygiene was a very popular concept in the early 1900s in psychiatry, and garnered a lot of outreach and public awareness from psychiatrists. How is the mental hygiene movement related to modern ideas wellness and mindfulness? Did they actually get it right with mental hygiene, or was it an undercooked idea? -RM
2. Summers talks about DC’s “Lunacy Laws” that governed institutions like Saint Elizabeths, and how there was a major push to reform the “barbaric” and “archaic” laws that surrounded commitment. Did these attempts at reform actually make the law more egalitarian, or did it just make more palatable the more social-control aspects of the 1904 lunacy law? -RM
1. In regards to mental hygiene, how did the regulations imposed to determine who needed mental health care and should not be permitted to remain in society affect those in recovery or those who may have been falsly accused of this? — Ruth Curran
2. What was the expectation with the allowance of voluntary admissions as far as treatment goes? Was this more of a benefit to the patient of the public? — Ruth Curran
1. How does the early mental hygiene movement bear resemblance to today's self-care push?-Margie Jones
2. It's interesting the contradictions between White's seemingly more liberal stance on race and the conditions of St. Elizabeth's for people of color. Was this simply an accepted sequence of events?-Margie Jones