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1 online resource (373 pages) illustrations |
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"One method is the therapeutic community technique of social psychiatry, which, by bringing the patients into cooperation with the staff and with each other on problems of ward management, helps fill the gap while it also opens up new possibilities for therapy through social interactions. Wide use of this plan, I believe, would significantly help in solving the problem which otherwise, with the staff functioning in traditional roles, seems hopeless of solution. The purpose of this book, therefore, is not to urge the Oakland program as a "model" for the mental hospital, but rather to report a scientific and human experiment as dispassionately as possible, to define, classify, and describe, to isolate certain significant elements of the structure and process, and to subject them to such methods of evaluation as are on hand at this time. This is what was done, this is what happened, and this is how we conceived of what happened. Many of my inferences will surely turn out to be in error, but many will probably be valid. For the most part--since this was an operational, rather than a laboratory research project--I urge the reader to consider my findings as hunches. At this stage of psychology, sociology, and my own branch of medicine, and with the tools we had to work with, one could hardly ask for more. And this in itself was no small task"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
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United States. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif
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Psychiatry -- Cases, clinical reports, statistics
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Group psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapy, Group
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Psychiatry
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Group psychotherapy.
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Case studies.
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Electronic book
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