Views from an asylum: a retrospective case note analysis of a nineteenth century asylum

ConclusionsThese findings challenge the myth that asylum incarceration was a usual practice before the advent of community care. Most patients were discharged from psychiatric asylum hospital within a year of admission even before the advent of psychotropic medication.

Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research