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The Personal Orientation of Long-stay Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Roger Morgan
Roger Morgan*
Affiliation:
St. Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire
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Working in a rehabilitation hospital (Morgan et al., 1965) for long-term psychiatric patients, many of them chronic schizophrenics, the author has been struck by the extent to which some of them are ignorant of the names of other people. This ignorance has been observed in formal therapeutic group situations, at formal interview, and in informal conversation. Whatever the situation may be, such ignorance hampers communication and causes socially incompetent behaviour on the part of the patient.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 501 , August 1967 , pp. 847 - 855
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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