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The Diagnosis of Public Mental Health Care Bureaucracies*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Luis Rojas Marcos  and
Rosa M. Gil
Luis Rojas Marcos*
Affiliation:
New York University School of Medicine
Rosa M. Gil
Affiliation:
New York University School of Medicine
*
40 East Ninth Street, New York, NY 10003, USA
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The proliferation of large-scale organisations is a phenomenon of modern society. As Etzioni (1968) puts it, “We are born in organisations, educated by organisations and most of us spend much of our lives working for organisations”. Most public organisations in modern society are bureaucracies and the field of psychiatry is no exception: a trend toward growing bureaucratisation, of both public and private mental health services organisations, can be observed everywhere. To a large extent, this is because, as standards of care become regulated and quality controls increase, the tasks that mental health professionals and administrators perform become better understood, more predictable, and more programmed. There is still room for creativity and innovation, but only in incremental, well controlled steps.

Type
III. Psychosocial Aspects
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue S4: Psychiatric Diagnosis: Nosological, Biological and Psychological Aspects , May 1989 , pp. 96 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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Footnotes

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This paper is a modified version of a paper entitled ‘Dysfunctions in Public Psychiatric Bureaucracies’ previously published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 145 (3), 331-334. Copyright 1988 The American Psychiatric Association. Reprinted by permission.

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