Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 1, 1937
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Music, Too, Is Medicine: Any activity that helps to bring sick minds back to normal interests has a curative value. So the state hospitals through their recreational therapy work encourage the formation of choirs, orchestras, dramatic groups and the like. In addition to furnishing entertainment for others, the efforts of patients along these lines are of direct benefit to themselves. Choir singing helps to keep them in touch with the realities of life, with religous expression, with the festivals that mean so much to the healthy world outside. It helps, too, to make them ready to resume their normal places in that world when they are cured of their ailments.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 3, 1937
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Beauty Parlor Spurs The Mind: Mental Illness often causes loss of a normal desire to look sightly to others. The restoration of pride in personal appearance may be a step toward recovery. So Ypsilanti State hospital has established a beauty parlor among its mental therapeutical agencies.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 11, 1937
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Working Back To Mental Health: Here is an occupational therapy shop. Tasks that interest and stimulate the mind help patients toward recovery and toward greater mental comfort. In addition to having curative results -- the main objective of occupational therapy -- the activities of patients produce many articles of use, such as rugs for sitting rooms and dormitories, curtains, chair covers, clothing, and the like. Nearly all the hospitals are using makeshift or inadequate quarters for occupational therapy. A separate building for this purpose at Ypsilanti is scheduled in the hospital building program.