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State Mental Hospitals

What Happens When They Close

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  • © 1976

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Editors:
  1. Paul I. Ahmed

    1. Southeastern University, USA

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  2. Stanley C. Plog

    1. Plog Research, Inc., Reseda (Los Angeles), USA

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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Mental Health (CTMH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Perspectives in the Closing of Mental Hospitals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction and an Overview of the Closing Scene

      • Paul I. Ahmed, Stanley C. Plog
      Pages 3-8

    3. Historical Factors Affecting the Closing of State Hospitals

      • Milton Greenblatt
      Pages 9-20

    4. The Case for Closing of the Hospitals

      • Werner M. Mendel
      Pages 21-29

    5. The Case Against Closing of State Hospitals

      • Stephen Rachlin
      Pages 31-44

    6. The Alternative Care Is Not There

      • Paul R. Dingman
      Pages 45-61

  3. The Impact of the Closing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. The Impact of the Closing of DeWitt State Hospital

      • Samuel Weiner
      Pages 65-81

    3. When They Closed the Doors at Modesto

      • Roberta A. Marlowe
      Pages 83-95

    4. The Posttransfer Fate of Relocated Patients

      • Elizabeth W. Markson, John H. Cumming
      Pages 97-109

    5. Community-Based Sheltered Care

      • Steven P. Segal, Uri Aviram
      Pages 111-124

  4. Issues in Community Care and the Closing of Hospitals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Some Major Issues in the Closing of the Hospitals

      • Milton Greenblatt, Elizabeth Glazier
      Pages 127-139

    3. Moving Patients Out of Hospitals—In Whose Interest?

      • Jonas Robitscher
      Pages 141-175

    4. Is the Community Ready?

      • Hugh G. Lafave, Frederic Grunberg, Richard W. Woodhouse, Leo Barrington
      Pages 177-203

    5. Whither the State Hospital?

      • Paul I. Ahmed
      Pages 205-212

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 213-219
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About this book

The 1970s constitute the decade of decisions about state mental hospi­ tals! These large, monolithic, and seemingly impervious institutions are being phased out in some states and their basic purpose for exis­ tence is being seriously questioned in almost all others. Since 1970, hospitals have closed in California, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Washington, and Wisconsin. Simi­ lar closings have occurred in several provinces of Canada, in Great Britain, and in some European countries. The purpose of the book is to examine the multiple issues growing out of the hospital closings: Why are the state hospitals being closed? What is the impact of closings on patients, hospital staff, and the communities where the hospitals are located? What has been the impact on the communities receiving these patients? What are the trends for the future, in terms of numbers of closings and types of hospitals which will remain? Is there a role for the state hospital in the care of the mentally ill or is it an obsolete institution? The impetus for the closings is diverse. The discovery and wide­ spread use of the tranquilizing drugs in the early 1950s allowed more patients to be returned to the community-under medication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southeastern University, USA

    Paul I. Ahmed

  • Plog Research, Inc., Reseda (Los Angeles), USA

    Stanley C. Plog

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: State Mental Hospitals

  • Book Subtitle: What Happens When They Close

  • Editors: Paul I. Ahmed, Stanley C. Plog

  • Series Title: Current Topics in Mental Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4265-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4267-0Published: 14 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-4265-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 219

  • Topics: Psychiatry

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