Item component is an article providing an overview of recreation activities (sports, crafts, etc.) used as therapies for psychiatric patients in institutions and the rationale for employing such approaches (including comparison to other techniques, such as work therapy, shock therapy and drug treatment). Article focuses on practices employed at the Saskatchewan Hospital located in Weyburn.

Article is supplemented by black and white photographs showing: the Saskatchewan Provincial Mental Hospital at Weyburn from around the 1920s; patients participating in bowling; patient making crafts; hospital staff hockey team; and Dr. Humphrey Osmond delivering an address.

Article is found in volume 65, issue 1 of Saskatchewan History, beginning on page 12.