The Leper Factory

About the Book

"mental illness is not a disease of the mind but a social and environmental disease. Change the social atmosphere or environment for the better and the illness fades to nothing."

About the Author

Brian Lee Palmer attended the University of Vermont for 4 years in the 1960?s. Years later he spent 4 years at the Vermont State Hospital. Since his hospitalization he had been an activist as a Psychiatric Survivor. He runs a weekly support group for ex-patients in Montpelier, Vermont. Brian Palmer was briefly ?put away? once again at the State Hospital for merely writing books such as this one.