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Girl cries outside of the shack in Crab Alley of Culmer.

Culmer, the predominantly black ghetto just west of downtown Miami is not a nice place to visit. It is even a worse place to live. It is a section of Miami that has been misunderstood, abused, neglected, maligned, realigned and forgotten.

George is 67, and dying of cancer. He lives in a cheap downtown Denver hotel with Helen, his common law wife. They met a dozen years ago at a mental hospital. Helen, her mind a muddle of confusion and fear, spends most of her nights sleeping on…

One of the Community Corps programs involves a mental health softball league, with the premise that competition being a threat for the emotionally disturbed, is only a threat when pressure is applied. But learn to accept competition gradually,…

One of the Community Corps programs involves a mental health softball league, with the premise that competition being a threat for the emotionally disturbed, is only a threat when pressure is applied. But learn to accept competition gradually,…

This is Andree, known as the Princess of Capitol Hill. She believes she is in line to become the next queen of France--should that country ever return to its monarchy form of government. She claims to be a descendant of Napoleon and delights in…

Cecelia has lived alone in her filthy apartment for five years, since being released by a mental hospital in Pennsylvania. Her mind has failed to the point she no longer looks after the sanitary conditions of her room. She leaves her home once a…

This is the picture of life in the boarding homes for one elderly woman. She is without family or friends and has only her regular seat by the lobby door to give her security.

But sometimes, hope is only a rumor, an illusion, just as the young man in this photograph considers the future of himself and of his illusion. This picture was shot in one of Denver's boarding homes where more and more young people are making their…

The new science of neurophonics offers a glimmer of hope for hopeless schizophrenics. A young music therapist with a 12 string guitar and a phonics machine uses music to soothe and calm the most hardened cases. The machine converts the music into a…