Care of Female Psychiatric Patients, Including the Acutely Disturbed, on an Open Medical and Surgical Ward

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DURING the last two decades greater attention has been paid by the medical profession to what Stanton and Schwartz1 have called the problem of "institutional participation" in the treatment and management of psychiatric illness. More and more, the trend has been away from the "asylum" that separated the patient emotionally as well as geographically from the social community and from his customary activities. More and more, efforts have been made to integrate the treatment of the patient with his daily life and with the accepted fabric of community organization, and to prevent psychiatric therapy from becoming an occasion that robs . . .

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