The Home Treatment of Psychotic Patients: An Analysis of 154 Cases

A Comparative Study of Home Treatment and Hospital Care in the Treatment of Schizophrenic and Paranoid Psychotic Patients

“…Reports of psychiatric home treatment have been published from inter alia, U. s. A., U. K., The Netherlands, and Finland. In some of the investigations on this subject results which speak for a prolonged outside-hospital life of the patients have been reported (Curse et al (1958), Greenblatt et al (1963), Pasamanick et al (1964), Meyer et al (1967), but in other respects this branch of treatment has received but little interest among researchers.…”

Priorities

“…Studies such as those of Dinitz et at (2) and Meyer et at (6) have illustrated the possibility of avoiding hospitalization for a significant proportion of adult patients. A recent article describing the development of a children'sresidential treatment centre (1) comments that full-time inpatient care might have been unnecessary for perhaps half the children 0 for whom it had been recommended.…”