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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. NIMH is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical research agency in the world. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Figure 6. Examples of repetitive movements and behaviour (Anthony, 1957a).

A 1968 underground explosion that killed 78 coal miners in Farmington, West Virginia (above), was a flashpoint for reform after years of fatalities and a growing awareness of black lung disease.

Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives. Above: RL’s trunk contains not only a substantial library of volumes from Cervantes to Poe but also a manuscript that he wrote

Figure 3. Big Flame, ‘We Won’t Pay’ Leaflet.

While it is important that the Administration is taking the affordable housing crisis seriously, the long history of attempts to address housing problems in the U.S. reveals these types of public-private initiatives have repeatedly enriched the private sector and done little to help those who need government action the most.

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Women of every age and background packed onto the sidewalks, with the oldest following the procession in carriages and the youngest being pushed in strollers by their mothers. Hundreds more people peered out of their windows upon the nurses, teachers, writers, social workers and students. “There were women who work with their heads and women who work with their hands and women who never work at all. And they all marched,” the New York Times reported the next day.

Rep. Peggy Maxie, who represented Seattle in the state House for six terms, carries a campaign sign. After leaving the Legislature, Maxie worked as a consultant on community projects and as a mental health therapist and marriage counselor.

Terry Cross with a group of children attending a NICWA-sponsored community gathering in 2001.

Graduate students for the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work visited Squirrel Hill in the early 1960s to study its Jewish community. Above: The 2000 block of Murray Avenue, showing Pinsker’s, M. Fogel Meats, Murray News Stand, Stern’s Café, Kablin’s Market, and other shops — Nov. 3, 1965.

Above: A miniature of the Erythrean Sibyl, writing.