Abstract
General practitioners, following a six-month to one-year's postgraduate training, are engaged in the care of a selected group of such chronic psychiatric cases as incapacitated neurotics, stabilized schizophrenics, chronic brain syndromes, and so forth. Drugs and supportive therapy are used. The patients are seen by the general practitioners in their private offices. The participating general practitioners meet in weekly or biweekly conferences for consultation with their psychiatric instructors, a social worker and secretary. Some fifty patients have been carried over the past two and one-half years by six or seven general practitioners. The project is funded by foundation grants which also cover the general practitioners' fees. It has helped to keep patients in their communities and has obviated the need for rehospitalization in the vast majority of cases. More than half the patients are now gainfully employed or work part-time under sheltered conditions.
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