Kings Park Psychiatric Center – Closing the Center
Documentary by Jim Fleming – 1996
Re-Edited by Stephen Weber
Unique perspective on the closing of the KPPC, filmed in 1996, before the 1997 closing, a moment in time which quickly passed and still continues….
Duration : 0:9:59
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I was there today …
I was there today at 4 AM, lol there were cops patrolling the place but we sneaked in, we went to the power plant also
you are kidding you …
you are kidding you treated the peapol like anamails and took out hafe of there brain thos guys were that did it to the crazys
unfortunately that …
unfortunately that is true. back in the 40’s to very late 60’s, patients were abused or just simply killed by Electro-Shock Therapy or the barbaric lobotomy. the original running of these buildings, the patients were treated with the ut-most care and treatment.
No The Place Closed …
No The Place Closed The Year I Was Born…..But I Have A Friend Who When to One For ABout A Week Or So
I Do Read About Some Place Ect
But I Did Almost Have To Go To One And I Have People Who think I Sould Be In One
I think your an …
I think your an ex-patient.
Some Maby In The …
Some Maby In The Older Days And Some Times Today
This Mental Hospital Was Up For Maby A Little Over 100 Years
Thay usaly Only Make You Do Puzzles
Ect
But Lests Say You LOVE Watching Movies
Movies Are Your Life
And Your Susidle/Murderest
Do You Whant Some Hole To Take That Away From You And Only Make You Do Puzzles And Board Games….
Wont That Make You Whant To Kill Your Self More And Kill Some One More Too
Is it true that …
Is it true that patients in mental clinics are treated roughly and assumed as animals?
Sex (some consenual …
Sex (some consenual & some not) between workers pan patients) barely trained, highly uneducated, no-account ward assistants that abused patients verbally and physically.
Get real KP, it was a microcosim of the woes of society throughout KP at that time and the alcoholic, white trash community it fostered. The journailst that did the piece should be ashamed. How about some investigation and objectivity.
Lets talk to some …
Lets talk to some former patients and get their perspective! I saw on a daily baisi geriatric patients, allowed to walk around with the own excrement stuck to their legs, kitchen cooks who spent their dayys drinking, recreational drugs sold sold by workers, food eaten by ward workers that was intended for patients, milk, meat, cheese, bread, etc. smuggled out by workers for their own consumption thru old, unused exits.
The patient …
The patient conditions were inhuman and horrible throughout. The former workers commenting on the “beauty of the trees” and the “corn” they grew to help sustain the facility is a overly romantic, pollyanish view.
What an …
What an embarrassing, sugar coated rendidtion of the human dumping grounds KPPC really was. I lived in KP for 20 years and worked at the facility with my friends and their parents who lived off the state gov’t dole for a number of years. During that time I visited every bldg. (Grp 4, Bldg. 93, the MR Unit, etc.) going deep into the wards and witnessing 1st hand the abuses, ignorance and stifling environment.
Its nice to see the …
Its nice to see the compassion those employee’s had toward the patients….dont see that too often in my line of work.
That was then… …
That was then… older and wiser you might say, having worked there as a teenager, I alway felt very confortable with the patients. But try not to feel sad, its our town, both the good history and the not so good history.
Stephen,
This …
Stephen,
This brings so much light to what we as kids experienced and witnessed. The times we went “uptown” to hang out and made fun of the mentally ill and stayed clear of them or feared them. We didn’t know as kids what was going on. Why didn’t we know? I went back to a 20 year KP high school reunion and went around my old haunts. I sat in my car in the Ben Franklin shopping center and still experienced mentally ill people accosting me in my car. It brought back so many memories it was sad.
and just so u know …
and just so u know ive seen stones there with numbers and a religious symbol. people didnt have names it seems which is sad.
lol its 2 minutes …
lol its 2 minutes away from my crib
Was this filmed in …
Was this filmed in the building?
try mid hudson …
try mid hudson psych center. nothing but assholes, no family, no compassion, turmoil, hate, allegations. lousy administration.
go there and look.. …
go there and look….I have.
ofc its not a place you can take a tour of.
where can I get …
where can I get more on KP – is there a documentary?
just crazy …
just crazy when you think about it, anyone whos been there in the past few years, its anything but “beautiful”
People with Mental …
People with Mental Illness are our neighbors, friends, brothers, sisters, children and parents. They deserve our compassion. If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with a mental illnes on Long Island NY, join us the third Wednesday of each month at the South Oaks Hospital Chapel, Sunrise Highway in Amityville. 10:00am – 12noon.
This year the LI Festival & Walk for Mental Health will take place in Heckscher Park, Huntington Sunday 9/21/2008, starts at noon. Call MHA Suffolk
searched on You …
searched on You Tube couldnt find her films???
What year was this? …
What year was this? Before Willow Brook the conditions for the cildren were bad, its a tough situation, you have people with profound illness, how do you take care of them an isusre taht they are not a danger to themselvers or others, some may rip off their garments other may have them removed hecause the may try to hang themselves, its not an easy place to work or live. Some patients has to be druged inorder to stop convulsions or self mutulation or attacks on staff and other patients.
I went with my …
I went with my Brownie Troop to sing on the childrens wards in 67-69 off Lawrence Rd. The patients we saw were in “high beds”(pens with bars) screaming and naked. I worked there in food service in the 70s in high school, and the adults were like zombies. I used to walk through the campus to the Jr High each day instead of taking the bus. The buildings were grand and beautiful. I’m enjoying the historical footage I found on the web tonight.