Judi Chamberlin, ca. 1985
Courtesy Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Judi Chamberlin was an activist who fought against the coercive treatment of people with psychiatric histories. Her experience of confinement at the Rockland State Hospital in New York led her to write On Our Own in 1978.
Her work inspired a new vision of self–help and peer–support services run by people with psychiatric histories.
