On Reducing the Mental Hospital Population in Great Britain

1964 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-720
Author(s):  
J. C. Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Population

Observations on Epileptic Automatism in a Mental Hospital Population

1953 ◽  
Vol 99 (417) ◽  
pp. 732-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Liddell
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Lobe ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Cerebral Function ◽  
Hospital Population

In recent years there has been renewed interest in correlating cerebral function with mental phenomena. For a time, with the advent of prefrontal leucotomy, interest in the frontal lobe reigned supreme. However, in recent years the temporal lobe has been coming to the fore, and is now beginning to rank with the frontal lobe in importance.

scholarly journals Letter: Long-stay mental hospital population.

BMJ ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (6003) ◽  
pp. 221-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Sargant
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Population

scholarly journals Eléments pour une histoire de la communauté thérapeutique dans la psychiatrie occidentale de la seconde moitié du 20e siècle

Gesnerus ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-540
Author(s):  
Catherine Fussinger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
World War ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Distinct Approach

Based on a critique of the traditional ruling of mental hospital, therapeutic community is an innovative model elaborated in Great Britain during World War II. According to this approach, all the relationships at work inside the institution have a big impact on the patients’ state. One of the favoured tools of the therapeutic community lies in regular meetings common to patients and staff, but also reserved to professionals. During these sessions small and big problems are intended to be discussed and resolved collectively. The constitution of this approach as a model and its diffusion in continental European psychiatry during the second half of the 20th century is described in this paper. Four stages are distinguished: the genesis, the constitution of a distinct approach and diffusion in Continental Europe, the radicalisation and criticism by the antipsychiatric movement, the institutionalisation and decline.

IOWA'S SHRINKING MENTAL HOSPITAL POPULATION

1967 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 106-116
Author(s):  
Donald W. Hammersley ◽  
Pat Vosburgh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Population

Long-stay mental hospital population

BMJ ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (6002) ◽  
pp. 150-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
W A Heaton-Ward
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Population

Klinefelter's Syndrome and Schizophrenia

1980 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
pp. 597-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Pomeroy
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Klinefelter’S Syndrome ◽  
Klinefelter's Syndrome ◽  
X Chromosomes ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The World ◽  
Average Proportion

The prevalence of Klinefelter's Syndrome in new-born males in large surveys throughout the world has shown a scatter of 1.4 to 1.9 per thousand. Forssman (1970) accepted by pooling results a figure of 0.17 per cent as the average proportion of males born with at least one too many X chromosomes in some or all cell lines. Studies of mental hospital populations have consistently shown a higher prevalence of extra X chromosomes in males, averaging 0.54 per cent. The two largest studies, in Great Britain (Maclean et al, 1968) and in Sweden (Hambert, 1966) made no differentiation in the psychiatric diagnosis of the patients, although Hambert stated that the high prevalence did not stem from the mentally retarded population.

A Review of Seven Years' Malarial Therapy in General Paralysis

1932 ◽  
Vol 78 (323) ◽  
pp. 843-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Mental Hospitals

Shortly after the introduction of therapeutic malaria into this country, the Ministry of Health and the Board of Control, in consultation with the London County Council Mental Hospitals Department, established a special centre for this treatment at Horton Mental Hospital. A separate villa in the hospital grounds was set apart for the work, and, through the interest, advice and help of Col. S. P. James, M.D., F.R.S., of the Ministry of Health, a laboratory was equipped and arrangements were made for the supply of malarial infective material to all parts of Great Britain. The work was begun in April, 1925, and during the seven years that have elapsed since then, 200 cases have been treated. These cases are all women, drawn from the various London County Mental Hospitals; recently, however, an annexe has been added to the centre, and facilities are now available for treating men also.

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