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Title: Christmas In Purgatory, Page 72
From: Christmas In Purgatory: A Photographic Essay On Mental Retardation
Original caption: "A danger of early institutional training programs was their separateness from the reality of the outside world. This was something more than the poor personal habits - unhygenic, amoral, uncouth - which breed within walls. Rather it was the unconscious furthering of irresponsibility and provincialism. For conformity and withdrawal are the bulwarks of mass management; and both are alien to the rough-and-tumble world. . ."
Richard H. Hungerford
Creator: Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan (photographer)
Date: 1974
Source: Available at selected libraries