The Mental Health Consumer Movement
Two people, Jay Mahler and Sally Zinman, are interviewed, both of whom are long time activists in the mental health consumer movement. The consumer movement is a client-led movement for rights for mental health clients. Taped June 18, 2008.
Discussion Questions for Consumers
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Notes on music and art:
The composer of the music and the painters of the pictures used in the show lived with serious mental health problems.Music:
Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
Paintings:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan by Francesco Bassano
Old Man in Sorrow by Vincent van Gogh
The Erythraean Sibyl (Sistine Chapel) by Michelangelo