There Could Be a Better Way!

There Could Be a Better Way!

Mental health

Therapeutic communities

Psychotherapy patients--Abuse of

Alternative treatment

anti-psychiatry

A poster advertising a benefit concert for the Better Way Collective, a group offering an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for those suffering from mental illness. The text reads:

THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN MENTAL HOSPITALS WHO WOULD BE OUT NOW IF THERE WAS SOME PLACE ELSE TO GO, AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS MORE WHO WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INSTITUTIONALIZED AT ALL IF THERE WAS SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVE. "THE BETTER WAY COLLECTIVE" IS A GROUP OF EX-MENTAL PATIENTS AND OTHER "SOCIAL OUTCASTS" WHO ARE GETTING TOGETHER A NON-INSTITUTIONAL, NON-PSYCHIATRIC. ALTERNATIVE TO HOSPITALIZATION. THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN MENTAL HOSPITALS WHO WOULD BE OUT NOW IF THERE WAS SOME PLACE ELSE TO GO, AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS MORE WHO WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INSTITUTIONALIZED AT ALL IF THERE WAS SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVE. "THE BETTER WAY COLLECTIVE" IS A GROUP OF EX-MENTAL PATIENTS AND OTHER "SOCIAL OUTCASTS" WHO ARE GETTING TOGETHER A NON-INSTITUTIONAL, NON-PSYCHIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TO HOSPITALIZATION.

The Better Way Collective

NYU Fales Library

Come!Unity Press

ca. 1973

English

Poster