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Parkdale expose: On assignment for The Star, freelance writer Betty Jane Wylie posed as a former mental patient to learn the plight of hundreds of psychiatric patients
Parkdale expose: On assignment for The Star, freelance writer Betty Jane Wylie posed as a former mental patient to learn the plight of hundreds of psychiatric patients

Parkdale expose: On assignment for The Star, freelance writer Betty Jane Wylie posed as a former mental patient to learn the plight of hundreds of psychiatric patients

Date8/24/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Parkdale expose: On assignment for The Star, freelance writer Betty Jane Wylie posed as a former mental patient to learn the plight of hundreds of psychiatric patients
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0090228F
Parkdale expose. Betty jane Wylie poses as ex-mental patient
Parkdale expose. Betty jane Wylie poses as ex-mental patient
7/17/1981
Time to kill: Writer Betty Jane Wylie, in her convincing disguise as a down-at-heel former mental patient, wiles away the hours at the lakefront south of the Parkdale ghetto
Time to kill: Writer Betty Jane Wylie, in her convincing disguise as a down-at-heel former mental patient, wiles away the hours at the lakefront south of the Parkdale ghetto
7/17/1981
Time to think: Masquerading as a former mental patient, Betty Jane Wylie found her boarding house offered little privacy, and spent a lot of time walking or sunning
Time to think: Masquerading as a former mental patient, Betty Jane Wylie found her boarding house offered little privacy, and spent a lot of time walking or sunning
7/17/1981
Tokenism feared: Former psychiatric patients Don Weitz and Carol Stubbs, top photo, worry that patients in institutions won't be told they can vote.
Tokenism feared: Former psychiatric patients Don Weitz and Carol Stubbs, top photo, worry that patients in institutions won't be told they can vote.
4/26/1985
House of fear: The St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital houses patients judged not guilty of violent crimes by reason of insanity. Hospital administrator Bob Cunningham, inset, is striving to quiet fears of residents opposed to the release of patients into the community.
House of fear: The St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital houses patients judged not guilty of violent crimes by reason of insanity. Hospital administrator Bob Cunningham, inset, is striving to quiet fears of residents opposed to the release of patients into the community.
7/16/1988
Hundreds of patients at Sunnybrook thoroughly enjoy working in the five-acre vegetable and flower garden at the rear of the hospital. It is part of their occupational therapy treatment
Hundreds of patients at Sunnybrook thoroughly enjoy working in the five-acre vegetable and flower garden at the rear of the hospital. It is part of their occupational therapy treatment
7/17/1949
Ty Turner: Official of Psychiatric Patients Advocate Office calls plan a major step backwards.
Ty Turner: Official of Psychiatric Patients Advocate Office calls plan a major step backwards.
5/27/1986
Advice from an expert author - Betty Jane Wylie writer-in-residence at Burlington library
Advice from an expert author - Betty Jane Wylie writer-in-residence at Burlington library
9/29/1987
Mental patients do the chores on the Caledon Hills farm of Mrs
Mental patients do the chores on the Caledon Hills farm of Mrs
10/7/1967
Drug users put in some of Humber Memorial's 22 mental health beds sometimes upset the other patients, says Dr. P. O. Butler, the hospital's chief of psychiartry.
Drug users put in some of Humber Memorial's 22 mental health beds sometimes upset the other patients, says Dr. P. O. Butler, the hospital's chief of psychiartry.
3/17/1971
A protest about Horse-and-Buggy treatment, To protest what they term centuries-old methods of treating patients in Ontario mental hospitals, members o(...)
A protest about Horse-and-Buggy treatment, To protest what they term centuries-old methods of treating patients in Ontario mental hospitals, members o(...)
9/24/1971
Long process: Like many patients at the Oak Ridge mental health centre, Daryi Jones, right, is frustrated by the long process of making appeals
Long process: Like many patients at the Oak Ridge mental health centre, Daryi Jones, right, is frustrated by the long process of making appeals
2/1/1990