Role Therapy in a Mental Hospital

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The treatment of the mentally ill had begun to decline in America and Europe, following the disillusionment of the early nineteenth century optimists with the effectiveness of moral treatment. See Rosenblatt Daniel , “The Influence of Institutional Models on Psychiatric Care,” in Some Factors Influencing the Design and Function of Psychiatric Facilities, Brooklyn College, New York, 1960.

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Spitz René A. , “Hospitalism: An Inquiry Into the Genesis of Psychiatric Conditions in Early Childhood,” in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. I, International Universities Press, New York, 1945, pp. 53–74.

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Bettelheim Bruno , and Sylvester Emmy , “A Therapeutic Milieu,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. XVIII, April 1948, pp. 191–206.