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Record Nr.

UNISA996197727203316

Autore

Barham Peter

Titolo

From the mental patient to the person / / Peter Barham and Robert Hayward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Travistock/Routledge, , 1991

ISBN

1-134-95287-2

1-138-97475-7

1-134-95288-0

1-280-06019-0

9786610060191

0-203-20707-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaywardRobert <1952->

Disciplina

362.2/6

Soggetti

Schizophrenics

Schizophrenics - Social conditions

Schizophrenics - Mental health services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE PERSON IN QUESTION; COMMUNITY MENTAL PATIENTS?; ON THE EDGE OF THE COMMON; BATTLING ON; REVALUATIONS; BEN: ONE PERSON'S JOURNEY; THE PERSON (MENTAL PATIENT) PREDICAMENT; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of contemporary mental health policy is to enable people who have had a severe mental illness to lead relatively independent lives in the community, rather than be sequestered permanently in the large mental hospitals. In recent years plans to hasten the closure of many of these hospitals have become controversial and generated sharp debate about community care. From the Mental Patient to the Person contributes to this debate through an exploration of the experiences of a group of people with a history of schizophrenic illness, who are living in the community.