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Hypnosis in Mental Hospital Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

C. L. Copeland
Affiliation:
Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea
E. Howard Kitching
Affiliation:
Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea

Extract

The Mental Treatment Act of 1930 has brought within the purview of the mental hospital that large class of psychoneurotic and “early psychotic” patients who formerly drifted despairingly in the wilderness between orthodox medicine and the quack. The purpose of this paper is to show how an attempt is being made in this hospital to deal with this heterogeneous class of patients by means of psychotherapy, carried out by the ordinary medical staff of the hospital, without interference with their routine duties.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1937 

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1 McDougall, , Outline of Abnormal Psychology, p. 465.Google Scholar
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