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  • Leading him to his bed like a somnambulist, Ana covered him and then went about the apartment in frantic motions to find the telephone and call the Psychiatric Emergency Team.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

  • Bizarre song titles and lyrics are also a band staple - such as Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles on the album Clouds Taste Metallic.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • Bizarre song titles and lyrics are also a band staple - such as Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles on the album Clouds Taste Metallic.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • Emboldened by Stonewall and the burgeoning gay freedom movement, in May 1970 activists with the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) infiltrated a conference on behavior modification by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The "dust bowl troubadour" – author of this This Land is Your Land, whose guitar bore the legend "this machine kills fascists" – had himself almost reached the end of the road: he was now in his fourth year at the Greystone Park Psychiatric hospital in New Jersey, suffering from Huntingdon's disease, which finally led to his death in 1967.

    Bob Dylan visits Woody Guthrie 2011

  • In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided that gay people were no longer mentally ill, but that changed nothing for trans and gender-variant people.

    Boing Boing 2010

  • The contents of her stomach, now on display at the Glore Psychiatric Museum, arranged like the archaeological remains of an intricate circular shield, turned out to be its own, private cabinet of curiosities.

    Swallow: Foreign Bodies by Mary Cappello – review 2011

  • Nelson C sez, Daryl Cunningham (a student mental health nurse based in London) is working on a comic book called Psychiatric Tales, due out in early 2010.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Psychiatric Association, said it is not that unusual for a distinguished and successful person to embellish his or her past.

    Joseph Ellis 2010

  • Sullivan's father, Patrick, then a Long Island Rail Road employee and an Army veteran of the Normandy invasion, took his 20-year-old son out of the Veterans Hospital and signed him into South Oaks Psychiatric Hospital in

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

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