Psychiatric Services
- Volume 26
- Number 7
- July 1975
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages429–435When a drama group in a small private psychiatric hospital decided to present Marat/Sade, a play about inmates in an insane asylum, some patients and many staff members reacted negatively. However, the drama group carried out its usual rehearsal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.7.429Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages435–438In 1973 the activities therapy department at the Yale Psychiatric Institute began to organize and present plays before public audiences to help increase contact between patients and community members. Both patients and staff were anxious about opening the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.7.435Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages439–441For several years after dance therapy was introduced at Yale Psychiatric lnstltute in 1967, patients perceived it as an activity totally separate from their treatment program. The author describes changes in hospital procedure and in the structure of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.7.439Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages441–443An art therapist conducted a survey of 150 mental health clinicians and activity therapists to find which of ten treatment modalities they preferred to use with ten types of psychiatric patients. The final sample consisted of 68 respondents: 34 clinicians,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.7.441Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages444–447Staff at the day treatment center at Norristown (Pa.) State Hospital have found several ways of using psychodrama to facilitate information gathering, diagnostic decision-making, and treatment planning and implementation. They use behavioral techniques ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.7.444Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages448–450Norristown (Pa.) State Hospital has a four-stage treatment program that prepares chronic patients for returning to the community. The program, which began in 1970, includes three token economy wards that are segregated by sex, and a coed activities ward, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.7.448Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages450–454"Man Is the only form of life that can contemplate its own future." That statement, made by Zigmond M. Lebensohn, M. D., clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D. C., was the opening for a symposium on ...
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