Schizophrenia: The Effectiveness of a Half-Way House for Schizophrenic Women at Norristown State Hospital, 1958–1963
Abstract
Today, mental hospital walls are tumbling down. Many patients once resigned to monotony behind bars and walls, are walking out into the community. Many others, who at one time might have faced a lengthy period of neglect, are being treated in community clinics. A "fresh wind" is blowing through the hospitals and through our own ways of conceptualizing mental illness. It is doing away with obsolete ideas and attitudes. Hospitals are beginning to unlock their doors and patients are no longer as isolated as they once were. The community is moving closer to the hospital and the hospital is moving closer to the community.In addition to this, we are also told that there has been a marked increase recently in the number of psychotic people who are recovering. A contributing factor to this occurrence seems to be the growing improvement in hospital care and the new promising forms of treatment.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Mental health|Health care management
Recommended Citation
Di Dario, Albert Raymond, "Schizophrenia: The Effectiveness of a Half-Way House for Schizophrenic Women at Norristown State Hospital, 1958–1963" (1965). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050488.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050488
