Specials - No Safe Asylum

DateMarch 28 1985

Can DescriptionsMaster Specials - No Safe Asylum X3545 Rec. 3/28/85

AbstractTitle: “No Safe Asylum with Peter Mehegan”. Peter Mehegan reports on the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, the deinstitutionalization movement, and how mental illness is treated. Includes interviews with Governor Michael Dukakis, Director of Beaverbrook Unit at Metropolitan State Hospital Chris Dodson, Attorney Richard Cole, Mental Health Attendant John Grossman, Medical Director of Metropolitan State Dr. George Siegle, Dr Don Siedel, Attorney Steve Schwartz, Tony Lewandowsky, Tom [Kosh?], Special Mayoral Assistant Marcia Burick, Paul Lynch, Norma Castine, Malden District Court Chief Court Officer Fred L. Agneta, Cathy Johnson, Ellen [Basick?], Secretary of Human Services Philip Johnston, DMH Commissioner James Callahan, Director of Mount Tom Institute Andy Philips, Senator Jack Backman, Robin Barber, and Ethel Centamo.

OtherCredits: Produced and Written by: Rory O’Connor; Associate Producer: Susan Bredhoff Cohen; Camera: Bill Hartigan; Camera: Bill Hartigan, David Skillicorn; Audio: Doug Dike; Editor: Marcia Tankersley; Music: Musitech; Researcher/Production Associate: Hope Kelley; Production Associate: Lynne McCrea; Additional Editing: Susan Krieger; Additional Location Crew: Leo Demers, Frank Firnschild, James Fripp, Judi Guild, Susan Krieger, Leroy McLaurin, Douglas Miller, Alan Pratt, Libe Stril-Rever, Howard Rouse, Jim Watson; Post Production: Doug DeVitt, George Ellard; Interns: Thomas Burke, Megan Gallagher, Athena Haseotes, Patricia Lavigne, Ann Tonner; Special Thanks to: Harvard Medical School Rare Book Collections Countway Library Boston, Mass., Northampton State Hosp. Library, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Mass., Inc., Center for Public Representation Northampton, Mass., Mass. Assoc. for Mental Health, Boston, Mass; Program Administrator: Joy McGugan; Executive Producer: Judith Stoia; Vice President Programming & Public Affairs: Paul LaCamera