PSY.HEARING Youths paint grim picture of psych hospital 'therapy'

AUSTIN Jeannie Warren, 19, testified Wednesday in a trembling voice to a state House committee about "rage reduction" therapy she underwent for 14 weeks at a private psychiatric hospital. Later, Warren sat on a bench outside the hearing room in the John Reagan Building and wept. Another teen-ager, Kathy Moticha, put her arms around Warren and comforted her. Moticha, 18, testified earlier about her six-week stay at another private psychiatric...

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