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East and west, old and new: The College tour of Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S.D. Martin ,
B. Bende ,
B. Breitner ,
M. Laker  and
F. Leslie
S.D. Martin
Affiliation:
Wonford House Hospital Dryden Road, Exeter EX2 5AF
B. Bende
Affiliation:
North Mersey Community NHS Trust, Rathbone, Mill Lane, Liverpool L13 4AW
B. Breitner
Affiliation:
Parkside Hospital, Victoria Road, Macclesfield SK10 3JS
M. Laker
Affiliation:
Royal London Hospital Trust, Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BB; and
F. Leslie
Affiliation:
Fair Mile Hospital, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 9HH
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German psychiatry is emerging from a black past to a challenging future. Under the Nazis it is thought that about 100,000 psychiatric patients were killed and 300,000 were compulsorily sterilised. Services for the mentally ill had also been adversely affected by two world wars and recession. For 50 years there was little progress. By the 1970s, the government and other institutions took more interest in mental health. Community facilities began to appear such as day centres. Long-stay patients are now being discharged from hospitals and asylums have closed in some states.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 10 , October 1994 , pp. 639 - 642
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