Understanding psychiatric institutionalization: a conceptual review
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Understanding psychiatric institutionalization: a conceptual review
BACKGROUND Since Goffman's seminal work on psychiatric institutions, deinstitutionalization has become a leading term in the psychiatric debate. It described the process of closure or downsizing of large psychiatric hospitals and the establishment of alternative services in the community. Yet, there is a lack of clarity on what exactly the concept of institutionalization means in present-day ps...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-13-169