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The former asylum residents and patient liberation activists—who identify as consumers/survivors/ex-patients of psychiatry—used these two kinds of memory either as a platform to advance their political agendas or to navigate their lives in the community as former asylum residents. I demonstrate how they interacted with these two different modes of memory and explain how they shaped the history of state hospitals during that period. This dissertation considers former asylum residents as vibrant and essential, albeit not always equally empowered, political actors in the process of deinstitutionalization. The first-person narratives of asylum residents were excluded from historical inquiry because their testimony was regarded as unreliable, a stigma that stemmed from their diagnostic labels. However, historians of disability and madness have argued that scholars need to re-evaluate disabled or mad people’s first-person accounts as historical sources. 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