Intensive Treatment Program in a Mental Hospital

Frøshaug, H; Sirnes, Thorvald; Stenstad, F.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1963.tb07850.x

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“…Han delegerte oppgaver til unge leger og psykologen. Den viktigste nye enheten ble opprettet for unge pasienter med psykotiske tilstander (11). Avsnitt for kroniske nevroser startet i februar 1959 med allmannamøter (fellesmøter) med Frøshaugs godkjenning.…”

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Harald Frøshaug og sosialpsykiatrien i Norge

Albretsen¹

2009

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Harald Frøshaug received training in scientific research by Rolv Gjessing (1887-1959), who was well known for his research on schizophrenic periodic catatonia. The Second World War brought new challenges for psychiatrists, and there was a pressing need for new treatment procedures and theories. Harald Frøshaug was inspired by English and American psychiatry, especially the psychoanalytic traditions. When he became head of the ward for women at Dikemark hospital in Asker in 1949, time was ripe to put new theories and methods into practice.

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Harald Frøshaug og sosialpsykiatrien i Norge

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2009

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Psychotherapy in a Psychiatric Institution – Attitude and Process

Jørstad¹

1974

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I have tried to demonstrate how experiences with individual psychotherapy and milieu work within a mental hospital, over a number of years, have brought about an increasing understanding concerning the basic importance of a therapeutic attitude by those working in mental health services, and also the importance of well trained psychotherapists as models and supervisors. Increasing insight into psychodynamic and social factors, have also contributed to a process within the institution. Individual psychotherapy in the hospital has met with its limitations, due to ego weakness on the part of the patients, the lack of experienced psychotherapists, and the necessity of integrating psychotherapy according to several other offers of treatment and rehabilitation. This development led to a reorganization of the whole treatment milieu, towards a more consequent group system, in which the total therapeutic resources, including patients and staff, have been utilized in a better way. Even this has met with its limitations, partly due to human irrationality and the complexity of group processes, and partly due to the limitations which are built into such a large hospital system and the resulting value conflicts. We now find ourselves at a third stage of development, in which the trend shifts towards more outpatient activity, and towards more work with patients’ families and their social situation.

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Intensive Treatment Program in a Mental Hospital

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Harald Frøshaug og sosialpsykiatrien i Norge

Harald Frøshaug og sosialpsykiatrien i Norge

Psychotherapy in a Psychiatric Institution – Attitude and Process

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