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Pennsylvania Happenings Psychiatric Tools Aid Mentally Ill
In Philadelphia Friends Hospital uses gardening as therapy for the mentally ill. Dr Karl Ludwig and horticultural therapist H Richard Draper describe how digging, tending plants, and outdoor nature walks help patients gain new perspectives, develop skills, and find purposeful activity beyond hospital confinement. The program emphasizes achievable projects, homeable skills, and a safe outlet for frustrations, linking horticultural therapy to rehabilitation and emotional well being. Dickinson College now preserves a tuning fork once used by Francis Scott Key for hymns in Maryland rural churches.
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