Patients' Opinion Poll
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Physical treatment is only one aspect of the therapeutic process in a psychiatric hospital. Personal relationships between patients and members of the staff and between patient and patient in the wards are also important but little is known about the extent to which they favour recovery. In this article Dr. F. T. Thorpe describes a Patients' Opinion Poll held at Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield to estimate the value of these social influences.
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