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LAWRENCE APPLEBY, Ph.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;8(1):8-21.

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The treatment of mental disorders, though more promising in its over-all perspective, is as pervasive a problem as it was 10 or 20 years ago. Mental hospitals are still over-crowded, understaffed, and unable to move chronic populations, and they are at a loss to find specific treatments for mental ailments.²⁹ More favorably, acute cases seem more amenable to treatment and are likely to leave the hospital within a relatively short period of time.

Despite some encouraging figures, the discouraging statistic is the long-term resident patient and, in particular, the chronic schizophrenic.³⁴ The issue is more than simply practical; schizophrenia is still a scientific enigma.⁹ Unfortunately, this has probably contributed to a pragmatic position which has hindered serious study of basic problems. For example, the emphasis on somatic therapies, having as yet no reliable empirical foundations,⁹ undoubtedly prevented a careful look at . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
OSAWATOMIE, KAN.

Osawatomie State Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov. 29, 1961.

This research was largely supported by Project Grant (OM-116) from the National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service.

Some of our more current work4,5 directly focuses on this problem.

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