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Thomas Ritchie (psychiatric survivor)

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Thomas Ritchie (born about 1928 – ????)[1] was a psychiatric survivor who founded the Scottish Union of Mental Patients whilst a state patient incarcerated in Hartwood Hospital in 1971.[2]: 38 

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  1. ^ "Survivor History Newsletter". micoxpplog.blogspot.ch. Survivors History Group. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  2. ^ Gallacher, Mark. "From mental patient to service user: deinstitutionalisation and the emergence of the Mental Health Service User Movement in Scotland, 1971-2006" (PDF). theses.gla.ac.uk/. Glasgow University. Retrieved 26 July 2017.