The Institution

(The Cherokee Mental Health Institute: Cherokee, Iowa)

Sometimes when you walk under a tree, it can be just as annoying to have a leaf fall on you as a fly to land on you.

– Jennifer L. Semple

A battery of psychological tests reveals that the patient manifests some “mild acting out tendencies which is consistent with past behavior. It is probable that the inclination to conflict with social convention will persist but genuine anti-social behavior is contraindicated.”

– Evaluation of Jennifer L. Semple, by R. Lowenberg

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