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Psychotherapy in Mental Hospital Practice

(Being the Preliminary Report of a Full-Time Psychotherapist in a Public Mental Hospital)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. Bierer
J. Bierer*
Affiliation:
Runwell Hospital
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In no other branch of medicine have doctors appeared so nihilistic or so defeatist as in the domain of psychiatry. It seems to me questionable whether this is due to the disparity in the therapeutic results between psychiatry on the one hand and general medicine on the other. In general medicine it is frequently forgotten that the really specific remedies at our disposal are so few that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand. If, on the other hand, we remember that as late as the time of the French Revolution mental patients were kept in chains, and that to-day in modern hospitals we see impressive results with such specific treatments as malarial therapy, then it must be admitted that the psychiatrist is not the only nihilist; but that this also applies to representatives of other branches of general medicine.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 86 , Issue 364 , September 1940 , pp. 928 - 952
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1940 

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