This essay describes an area of clinical interest explored by a consultant psychiatrist who was appointed for one purpose and developed another. It describes a new community forensic psychiatric service for an area which was Welsh speaking and had no penal units. As a result of the discharge of 500 in-patients from 8 psychiatric hospitals in 1961–63 a ‘spare' hospital became available as the centre piece of a service which is now described.
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CraftM. J. (1973), A Welsh Service for Psychopaths, to be published.
