In 1983 a scheme was run by the DHSS and the DTI whereby BBC microcomputers were placed in occupational therapy departments around Britain to see whether they would be a useful therapeutic tool. As part of this project Battle Hospital, Reading, was given two computers, one of which was intended to be peripatetic in the West Berkshire District. From December 1983 to date one of the computers has been used at Fair Mile Hospital, Wallingford. This is a resulting report to show the possible uses of the BBC computer in psychiatry. It describes how the computer has helped to treat specific psychiatric symptoms and illustrates this with case observations to show the responses of various patients.
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