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JURGEN RUESCH, M.D.; CARROLL BRODSKY, M.D.; AMES FISCHER, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;8(2):197-207.

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The acute nervous breakdown interrupts people's lives and interferes with their social relations, work, and physical health to such an extent that the patient and his relatives have to seek expert help. Although the therapy of psychiatric conditions is unspecific and symptomatic, the physician's choice of method, timing, and place of treatment determines to a considerable extent the duration and the cost of the illness. Modern treatment methods have given the physician an opportunity to handle the vast majority of acute conditions in a matter of weeks without incurring the disabling side effects of prolonged hospitalization. The details of a combination of psychological, social, and somatic procedures as used on a psychiatric service dedicated to the management of acute conditions are presented in subsequent pages.

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The Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, has a 26 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, and The Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 13, 1962.

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