Treatment Results in the Major Psychoses

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Abstract
THE long-accepted view that persons attacked by psychosis are doomed to life-long custodial care is seriously challenged by present-day experience. The somatic therapies have revived hope for the ultimate curability of the most serious mental derangements, and concurrently a new enthusiasm for psychotherapy and social therapy has emerged.The statistics of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital provide a basis for evaluating the effectiveness of modern treatment. The Boston Psychopathic Hospital admits three classes of patients: Patients with gross abnormalities of thinking, feeling or behavior, admitted from the community on referral by practicing physicians. Some of these patients are discharged as not . . .
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