Patients in Mental Hospitals

Voluntary Patients in Mental Deficiency Hospitals

Mental Hospitals in India

This review traces the history of the mental hospital movement, initially on the world stage, and later in India, in relation to advances in psychiatric care. Mental hospitals have played a significant role in the evolution of psychiatry to its present statusThe earliest hospital in India were established during the British colonial rule. They served as a means to isolate mentally ill persons f...

Libraries in Mental Hospitals

Libraries in hospitals are now an accepted principle in this country and some others, but before they can reach perfection their establishment in mental hospitals calls for more study, for very ready co-operation by all concerned, and also for much imagination and sympathy. One day when going into a ward of particularly distressed and depressed women, I felt compelled to speak to one who looked...

Attitudes of relatives to patients in mental hospitals.

In recent years the policy ofmany mental hospitals in the United Kingdom has been to promote the rehabilitation and discharge of patients with chronic mental disorders. The increasing number of cases with residual symptoms living either at their homes or at institutions in closer proximity to the local population than traditional mental hospitals demands much tolerance and sympathy from relativ...

A survey of mental hospitals and mental deficiency institutions in the Birmingham region. I. Mental hospitals.

The problem of providing adequate care and treatment for patients suffering from mental disorder has become more acute in recent years for many reasons, not least amongst them being the increased numbers and longevity of the population in conjunction with their greater willingness to seek early advice and treatment. As a result, mental hospitals are faced with the dilemma of increasing their ad...