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https://archive.org/details/womenlookatpsych0000unse/page/38/mode/2up -- Women's Oppression & Psychiatric Oppression by Judi Chamberlin (1978)

In the book, Women Look at Psychiatry, specifically Women's Oppression & Psychiatric Oppression, Chamberlin explains how women mental patients were oppressed because she is a women, not a mental patient. She eventually goes on to talk about "Successfully" psychotherapized or institutionalized women had to be adjusted to gender roles. Through the lends of feminism she learned why she was oppressed. Moving forward, Chamberlin explains how silence is a form of oppression as well as social class influence within psychiatry. Upper class women take the role of Lady Bountiful, middle-class women learn to be a successful wife or mother, careerist, and feel guilty, and working class women are introduced to incarceration and electric shock, said Judi. Through examination Chamberlin informs victims tend to be lower class.

https://archive.org/details/womenlookatpsych0000unse/page/52/mode/2up -- Struggling To Be Born by Judi Chamberlin (1978)

In the book, Women Look at Psychiatry, specifically Struggling To Be Born, Chamberlin explains her journey through various psychiatric hospitals and wards. In March 1966 she signed herself into a mental ward at Mt. Sinai Hospital. The hospital decided to change her medication which made her dis-oriented and depressed. Chamberlin informs that Mt. Sinai Hospital's rules were to behave and conform. She was later discharged and returned to her apartment and current marriage in which she refers to as a "prison". Judi's first thought physiatrics were the "answer", therefore, she later entered Bellevue Hospital for a short time. Her horrified parents transferred her to Gracie Square Hospital after hearing about their practices. She consistently feared of being punished through drugs, shock, and confinement. At this point Chamberlin convinced herself she was weak, wrong, and crazy. Eventually was transferred to Hillside Hospital by her psychiatrist for her next treatment. At Hillside they practiced "earned" privileges such as phone calls and visitors. Judi later convinced Hillside to discharge her. After being released starting to slit her wrists she was checked into Montefiore Hospital's psychiatric ward. At Montefiore she was put on tranquilizers once again. Due to uncooperative actions, such as hiding the prescribed drugs in her mouth, she was committed to Rockland State Hospital. Here she realized "Freedom was an illusion".

https://archive.org/details/extraordinarypeo00kent/page/154/mode/2up -- Extraordinary people with disabilities (1996)

In the book, Extraordinary people with disabilities, specifically Judi Chamberlin's chapter informs about her personal life. The text explains how Chamberlin never attended college as after high school she was a secretary. Judi married at the age of 20 and rented a tiny apartment together. Her family took her to a psychiatrist after having a miscarriage. Her doctor prescribed tranquilizers but was just making the situation worse. Chamberlin spent six months in and out of psychiatric hospitals. The medications she was given made her "lethargic and confused" as well as she felt like something was wrong with her. Judi was transferred to Rockland State Hospital in Orangeburg, New York. Once her privilege was earned she made phone calls to Legal Aid Society and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) but they refused to help. At Rockland she mainly ate bread and margarine due to the food provided not being very appetizing. There was no privacy in Rockland, even in the bathrooms and the nurses did not treat individuals as people in the hospital. Chamberlin learned to hide her own true feelings to get out of Rockland. She later had a child named Julie. From there Judi and her daughter moved around from city to city. Chamberlin joined the Mental Patients Liberation Project along with writing articles and appearing on radio talk shows. She used an unknown false name at first to conceal herself but later revealed her true name. In 1974 she fell in love with a man and they moved to Vancouver, BC but her relationship ended shortly after. Judi started to attend the Vancouver Emotional Emergency Care, which is an incentive program, to stop her fear of being alone. Chamberlin later created the Mental Patients Liberation Front (MPLF) after moving to Boston from Vancouver. The Mental Patients Liberation Front (MPLF) consists of a group of former psychiatric patients. In 1978, Judi published the book, On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System. Judi later was a guest on Good Morning America. She started the self-help movement which gained worldwide attention. In 1985 Judi founded the Ruby Rogers Advocacy and Drop-In Center in Somerville, MA and was the founder of the Empowerment Center in Lawrence, MA. In the 1990s she received the Distinguished Service Award from the President on two different occasions.

What I am planning on doing with these books is adding important information that maybe left out within her wikipedia page such as the unnamed hospitals.