Middletown Psychiatric Center Newsletters
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Overview of the Records
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
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Albany, NY 12230
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Arrangement
Arranged by title and roughly chronological therein.
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of newsletters produced by staff, patients, and volunteers at Middletown State Hospital (later Middletown Psychiatric Center). Titles include "Empathy," the quarterly newsletter of staff and volunteers (1965, 1968); "We Speak," patient newsletter (1958-1967); The "Hilltop," patient newsletter (1935-1953); "The Hilltop Herald," and "MPC Herald," staff newsletter (ca. 1978-1996); and other short-lived or untitled publications (1961-2002).
Related Material
B1540 Issues of "Marcy News," Marcy Psychiatric Center Newsletter, 1968-1976
B1585 Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center Newsletters, 1957-1994
B1453 Willard State Hospital Newsletter, 1957-1980, and
B1480 "The Opal" Patient Newsletter, 1851-1860, also contain newsletters of mental health institutions.
Access Restrictions
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Detailed Description
Dates | Contents | Box | |||
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Accretion: B1922-06 |
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1958-1960 | We Speak | 1 |
1962-1965 | We Speak | 2 |
1965-1967 | We Speak | 3 |
1965, 1968 | Empathy (volunteer quarterly newsletter) | 4 |
1961-2002 | Other short-lived or untitled publications | 4 |
1935-1953 | The Hilltop patients' newsletter | 5 |
circa 1978-1988 | The Hilltop Herald staff newsletter | 6 |
1989-1996 | MPC Herald | 6 |
1984-1990 | MPC Education and Training Dept Newsletter | 7 |
1978-1979 | MPC Staff | 7 |
1958-1962 | We Speak | 7 |
1990-1995 | PRN – Nurses Talk to Nurses | 7 |
1994-2000 | MPC Pharmacy Focus (scattered issues) | 7 |