Kings Park Psychiatric Center - Closing the Center
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Uploaded by sew11754 on Feb 21, 2007
Documentary by Jim Fleming - 1996
Re-Edited by Stephen Weber
Unique perspective on the closing of the KPPC, filmed in 1996, before the 1997 closing, a moment in time which quickly passed and still continues....
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I went with my Brownie Troop to sing on the childrens wards in 67-69 off Lawrence Rd. The patients we saw were in "high beds"(pens with bars) screaming and naked. I worked there in food service in the 70s in high school, and the adults were like zombies. I used to walk through the campus to the Jr High each day instead of taking the bus. The buildings were grand and beautiful. I'm enjoying the historical footage I found on the web tonight.
4 years ago 4
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I think your an ex-patient.
2 years ago 2
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@rmhold21 ur grandma was a gilf.
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@daewonsongpingpong Yes, I'm here because of Opacity. It is one of the best websites I've visited. Never have I spent so long browsing a site. Motts photos are outstanding.
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Anyone else here cause of Opacity us?
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i rated this thumbs down because it was fuckin boring me.
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@scificam I understand that sentiment but you cant demonize an entire generation...
Its kind of counter productive to defend human beings while still calling them "crazies" though....
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can i get this on DVD??
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I was there today at 4 AM, lol there were cops patrolling the place but we sneaked in, we went to the power plant also
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you are kidding you treated the peapol like anamails and took out hafe of there brain thos guys were asses that did it to the crazys
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unfortunately that is true. back in the 40's to very late 60's, patients were abused or just simply killed by Electro-Shock Therapy or the barbaric lobotomy. the original running of these buildings, the patients were treated with the ut-most care and treatment.
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No The Place Closed The Year I Was Born.....But I Have A Friend Who When to One For ABout A Week Or So
I Do Read About Some Place Ect
But I Did Almost Have To Go To One And I Have People Who think I Sould Be In One
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Stephen,
This brings so much light to what we as kids experienced and witnessed. The times we went "uptown" to hang out and made fun of the mentally ill and stayed clear of them or feared them. We didn't know as kids what was going on. Why didn't we know? I went back to a 20 year KP high school reunion and went around my old haunts. I sat in my car in the Ben Franklin shopping center and still experienced mentally ill people accosting me in my car. It brought back so many memories it was sad.
acib40 2 years ago
That was then... older and wiser you might say, having worked there as a teenager, I alway felt very confortable with the patients. But try not to feel sad, its our town, both the good history and the not so good history.
sew11754 2 years ago
What year was this? Before Willow Brook the conditions for the cildren were bad, its a tough situation, you have people with profound illness, how do you take care of them an isusre taht they are not a danger to themselvers or others, some may rip off their garments other may have them removed hecause the may try to hang themselves, its not an easy place to work or live. Some patients has to be druged inorder to stop convulsions or self mutulation or attacks on staff and other patients.
sew11754 4 years ago
I work with people who were horribly abused at this faciltiy even in it's latest days. Perhaps this gentleman is a psychiatrist - such are the staff who didn't believe the patients. Thank God for the recovery movement of which I am glad to be a part. No disrespect to those sharing in the interview... There are some accurate documentaries in production progress. Real interviews - with folks in recovery now. Look for Lucy Weiner's film...
ladyhead123 4 years ago
and that is the true story of the center, with the understanding that grouping people together in this type of situation, in and of its self is not a good thing.
sew11754 4 years ago
There were very kind people and very cruel people. Like society in general. I still think of that one fellow at Lucy's screening who told of being a patient on an adult ward as a 12 year old boy, brings a tear to my eye at the strangest of times.
sew11754 4 years ago