Earthlore trays set before the patients. The diet was mainly starch. Hot dogs and beans were
standard, as was stale bread. As soon as the food was cleared, the packaging materials …

A decade ago, frustrated and despairing about psychiatric practice, I wrote an article
expressing my anger and disillusionment (Johnstone, 1993). Last January, after a long …

STATE HOSPITAL is located in a rural area with narrow, sometimes ill-repaired, blacktopped
roads. No public transportation serves the hospital. From December through March the …

Sir: I wonder if other members of the College share my concern over the Government's
introduction of apsychiatric tsar'even if the represenative, Louis Appleby, is a senior member …

I RETURN to Cincinnati all too infrequently. I have warm and nostalgic feelings for this
department where, 15 yr ago, I embarked on my psychiatric career. I am proud to say that a …

“How long will I have to be on these medications?” It was my first day rotating through the
largest neuropsychiatric hospital in Rwanda. I was meeting with one of my preceptor's …

Weak. I had a froggy voice, so I couldn't even talk to myself. Soft words. Blotto. If I was living
in a hospital, I'd wake up, sometime, in my bed near the window. I went to occupational …

There is an old joke told of a tourist asking for directions, only to be advised by a local:“Well,
I would not start from here”. We have the acute mental health services we have inherited …

More than 1,200 professionals representing a broad range of mental health disciplines
attended the 38th Institute on Hospital and Community Psychiatry last October 26-30 in San …

From the early 1950s, effective drug and psychological therapies coupled with pressures
from antipsychiatry have driven a very persuasive vision of deinstitutionalized psychiatry in …