The Psychiatric Emergency
Subtitle: Its Recognition and Management (Emergency Health Services Review Series, Vol 3, No 1) (Emergency Health Services Review Series, Vol 3, No 1)
Contributors: Eugene S. O'Neill (Editor); Conference on Emergency Psychiatry (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: May 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780866565189
Subjects: Psychiatry; Psychiatric emergencies; Medical; Psychology; Psychiatry - General; Mental Illness; Emergencies; Congresses; Mental Health Services
First sentence: Prior to the 1950's, containment and humanitarian custodial care in a public psychiatric hospital were the most that one might expect for a lower or middle class individual with a severe or perplexing psychiatric disorder.