The metamorphosis of public opinion is notoriously slow. Although the last two or three decades must have done much to disabuse the public mind of its misconceptions with regard to mental hospitals, there is still some distaste felt by parents at the suggestion that mental nursing might be a suitable career for their daughters. Before an attempt is made to overcome this, the conditions and oppo...

THIS valuable conference was held at Friends House on October 8th and 9th, 1964. It was organised by the National Association for Mental Health for staff concerned with the care and treatment of old people with mental deterioration, to consider common problems on an inter-disciplinary basis. Aves, formerly Chief Welfare Officer of the Ministry of Health, was in the Chair. They presented a great...

We typically think of acutely and chronically mentally ill patients as those who belong in psychiatric hospitals and the latter category of patients belonging in "regular" hospitals, but the intersection of physical and mental illness draws attention to important challenges for policy makers and organizational leaders. This article illuminates some broad trends in the health status of people wi...

Using demographics on admission to, and discharge from, mental hospitals in Alberta and British Columbia, this paper analyzes the social process commonly framed as deinstitutionalization between 1950 and 1980. A focus on the two most western Canadian provinces permits an exploration of these changes in these regional contexts. Pressured by new funding arrangements, a shift towards community car...

Discordances of harmonic mental functioning are as old as the human kind. Psychopathological behaviour of an individual in the past was not treated as an illness. That means that psychopathology was not considered an illness. In all past civilizations discordance of mental harmony of an individual is interpreted from the physiological aspect. Psychopathologic expression was not considered an il...

I have been invited to speak to you on mental hospitals and what they contribute to the Mental Health Service. I suppose the most natural and immediate reaction of any member of the laity, on being invited to address a gathering of chaplains, is to reflect on any possible spiritual aspects of his theme. I confess to having experienced some considerable dismay on being told I was to talk to you ...

UNLABELLED PURPOSE, MATERIALS AND METHODS: In order to elucidate risk factors of TB outbreaks, 223 outbreaks reported between 2000 and 2006 in Japan were analyzed according to sex, occupation and outbreaking place of the index case. RESULTS In male, the most frequent occupation was permanent workers who infected contacts mainly at workplaces, followed by unemployed people at general hospital ...

Young people living near Farleigh Hospital are coming to understand something of the problems facing large mental hospitals, through their own concern and involvement.

1. The National Committee for Mental Hygiene: Origins and Achievements The mental hygiene movement in America was launched with the founding of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in the first decade of the present century. The founder was Clifford Beers, a man whose knowledge of mental illness and its attendant problems came entirely out of his own experience as a patient in mental hospi...