Mental Diseases of the Senium at Mid-Century: First Admissions to Ohio State Public Mental Hospitals

Mental Hospitals at Work

Mental illness in the Republic of Ireland--first admissions.

The acquisition of mental verbs: a systematic investigation of the first reference to mental state.

l’t is generally recognized that the ability to contemplate and communicate about the knowledge, beliefs, and goals of oneself and others is a benchmark of human cognition. Yet, little is known about the beginnings of this ability, in large measure because methods for accurately assessing very young children’s ubility have been unavailable. Here we present the results of using a method of conve...

A survey of mental hospitals and mental deficiency institutions in the Birmingham region. I. Mental hospitals.

The problem of providing adequate care and treatment for patients suffering from mental disorder has become more acute in recent years for many reasons, not least amongst them being the increased numbers and longevity of the population in conjunction with their greater willingness to seek early advice and treatment. As a result, mental hospitals are faced with the dilemma of increasing their ad...

Efficiency of Mental Hospitals.

Civilized communities spend much of their resources on the care of the sick. In present-day Britain nearly half the hospital beds are occupied by the mentally ill, so that even a small improvement in the treatment of these patients will be profitable, both in alleviating suffering and in reducing the burden on the community. In the work reported here, we have adopted certain criteria by which t...