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Social Treatment of Chronic Schizophrenia: a Comparative Survey of Three Mental Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. K. Wing  and
G. W. Brown
J. K. Wing
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
G. W. Brown
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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One of the fundamental concerns of social psychiatrists is to determine whether social events can influence the onset and the course of a particular mental illness and, if so, in what ways. The problems involved are formidable. In schizophrenia, for example, it is necessary to have reliable means of measuring the manifestations and progress of the disease, as well as adequate methods for assessing social events. However, if these difficulties can be satisfactorily overcome, there is a way in which a preliminary experiment can be made.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 450 , September 1961 , pp. 847 - 861
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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