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The View-point of the Mentally Subnormal Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Brian R. Ballinger
Brian R. Ballinger*
Affiliation:
Dundee Psychiatric Service, Strathmartine Hospital, Dundee, Angus, Scotland
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Many patients in hospitals for the mentally subnormal are very isolated from the community (Ballinger, 1970). McKeown and Leck (1967) suggested that many individuals in these hospitals do not require hospital care and there have been recommendations that hospitals for the subnormal should be smaller in the future (Department of Health and Social Security, 1971).

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 568 , March 1973 , pp. 315 - 317
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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