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Deinstitutionalization in the USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Leonard Fagin
Leonard Fagin*
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Claybury Hospital, Woodford Green, Essex
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The task of summarizing the experience of public mental hospitals in the USA is perhaps impossible and unrewarding as far as UK-based psychiatry is concerned. The complex governmental and insurance intrastructure, the heterogeneity of approaches and the disappointing rhetorical stance one observes in learned journals make it difficult to translate American practice to our own. This task is even more difficult when one only has written communications to fall back on, and readers will have to take this into account in this brief article.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , June 1985 , pp. 112 - 114
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