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Elizabeth A. Richter is a long time advocate for human rights within the mental health system and the legal system. Her articles have been published in "Glamour Magazine", "Liberty Magazine", "Psychotherapy Networker", "The Storyteller", "The Hartford Courant" and other online venues. She is the author of the memoir "Songs of the Captive", a collection of essays entitled "Songs of the Captive Unchained", editor of two additional collections of essays entitled "The Very Best of Divorce in Connecticut" and "Even Better From Divorce in Connecticut", and author of a book of poetry entitled "To Babylon".
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 26, 2016 About Jane
This article describes a bystander's response when she sees a friend of hers with a mental health disability permanently barred from a bookstore, because of a mental disability.
(22 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 17, 2016 My Mother's Nursing Home Horror
In the final years of her life, my overbearing sister placed my mother in a nursing home where she was restrained, misdiagnosed and over-medicated. She eventually died earlier than necessary, 40 pounds lighter and a pale reflection of the woman she'd once been. How are nursing homes getting away with mistreating the elderly?