Exiles in New York City shares untold stories from Ward's Island, offering a new lens on the city's past and present from the perspective of the marginalized.
Philip T. Yanos is professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential (2018). During his childhood in the 1970s, Yanos lived on the grounds of Manhattan State Hospital on Ward's Island, where his father was a psychiatrist.
