Closing the asylums
Subtitle: causes and consequences of the deinstitutionalization movement
By: George Paulson ; foreword by John C. Burnham
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780786470983
Subjects: Psychiatric Hospitals; Mental Health Services; Deinstitutionalization; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Commitment of Mentally Ill; Mentally Ill Persons; History
Description: "Though closing the asylums promised more freedom for many, encouraged community acceptance, and enhanced outpatient opportunities, there were unintended consequences. This book is written from the point of view of an academic neurologist who has served 60 years as an employee or consultant in typical state mental institutions in North Carolina and Ohio"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hilltop asylum in Columbus, Ohio; title: Did DI result from attitudinal change, and did it reflect new wisdom?; title: Building obsolescence and deinstitutionalization; title: Did deinstitutionalization reflect the arrival of successful medications, or was medication only a new chemical straitjacket?; title: Role of new disciplines in mental hospitals; title: Urbanization : loss of a rural location; title: Advances in public health and public attitudes; title: The increase in social and community resources and their effect on enhancing freedom for the patients; title: Legal initiatives as a major factor in change; title: Elimination from the hospitals of the physically handicapped; title: Summary : with consequences of deinstitutionalization.