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The Psychiatric Patient in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. Balfour Sclare
A. Balfour Sclare*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Department, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, S.W.1 (Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., 1950–1951)
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This paper is based on a year's psychotherapeutic experience during 1950–51 in a well-known psychiatric clinic in America.

The psychiatric patient in the United States, like his brother and sister elsewhere, may be regarded from one viewpoint as a product of his culture. It has been said that the American scene is compounded of an unorganized mass of atypicalities; but, in fact, certain broad cultural trends are discernible. A brief look at the background of social and family patterns will help to give some insight into the psychic apparatus of the sick as well as the healthy person.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 416 , July 1953 , pp. 572 - 579
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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