Institutionalism and Schizophrenia - A Comparative Study of Three Mental Hospitals 1960-1968

Klappentext This book studies the relationship between institutionalism and schizophrenia in the lives of mental patients. Zusammenfassung This book studies the relationship between institutionalism and schizophrenia in the lives of mental patients. The interesting approach to the positive and negative effects of institutionalisation on schizophrenics will give this book a wide readership in psychiatry! social psychology and the social sciences as well as among social workers! nurses and occupational therapists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Disease and the social environment; 2. The design of the study and methods of measurement; 3. The three mental hospitals; 4. The nature of institutionalism in mental hospitals; 5. Differences between the hospitals in 1960; 6. Changes in patients and environment, 1960-1964; 7. Changes in the three hospital compared, 1960-1968; 8. The numerical data illustrated by a descriptive account of selected wards and representative patients; 9. Comparative survey of schizophrenic patients in an American county hospital, 1964; 10. Institutionalism and schizophrenia: summary, discussion and conclusions.

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• Authors: G. W. Brown, Brown G. W., J. K. Wing, J. K. (University of London) Brown Wing, J. K. Brown Wing, Wing J. K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521112802
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11280-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Mental Health, Psychiatry