Recent Advances in Community Psychiatry

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THE past decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth of interest in community mental health in the United States. Articles concerning community treatment of the mentally ill were rare ten years ago. In contrast, the recent literature, both professional and lay, is replete with descriptions of new community programs. This decade of heightened interest culminated in President Kennedy's message to Congress1 in February, 1963, which resulted in the passage, in the following October, of Public Law 88–164, the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Act. The act provides $329,000,000 to help states build community mental-health centers and develop programs . . .

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