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June 8, 1981

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a reporter at large

THE PATIENT III - IS THERE NO PLACE ON EARTH FOR ME?

Susan Sheehan

REPORTER AT LARGE about the case history of Sylvia Frumkin (pseudonym), a patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. Writer describes her family: her …