Martyrs of the psychiatric hospitals

Do We Need Psychiatric Hospitals?

to follow their predecessors into the rigid acceptance of what was thought to be right. The provision of total community care without any in-patient facilities might eliminate most of the dangers and disadvantages of hospital care. Stigma should be reduced, since people would not 'go away'. Problems would have to be solved in the situation in which they occurred and treatment tried out in reali...

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

Manner of Request Psychiatric Counseling from Educational Hospitals

Abstract Introduction: 30 to 60% of patients admitted to non-psychiatric wards have at least one significant psychiatric illness. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency, causes, and quality of psychiatric counseling requested. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out on all patients admitted to educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran from 2012 to ...

Sexual drive of patients in psychiatric hospitals

We are all indebted to Dr Elizabeth M Bryan for her contributions to our knowledge of the social and psychological effects of twinning and to Dr Manny Lewis for his studies of the need for mourning in relation to stillbirth -their latest joint paper (19 November, p 1327) being no exception. I wonder, however, whether they have sufficiently emphasised the conflict in a mother between mourning fo...

Sexual drive of patients in psychiatric hospitals.

We are all indebted to Dr Elizabeth M Bryan for her contributions to our knowledge of the social and psychological effects of twinning and to Dr Manny Lewis for his studies of the need for mourning in relation to stillbirth -their latest joint paper (19 November, p 1327) being no exception. I wonder, however, whether they have sufficiently emphasised the conflict in a mother between mourning fo...