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Dr. Geoffrey Reaume is Associate Professor in the Critical Disability Studies graduate program at York University where he’s taught since 2004. His work as historian, author, video producer and playwright are all informed by his experiences as a psychiatric patient as a teenager and young adult. He explains the medical diagnosis he was given as a young person and how it affected his life. He discusses the history of treatment of people whose medical diagnoses led to confinement in asylums. He says what he learned from his examination of the Toronto Hospital’s medical files, 1870 to 1940. He s
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