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Psychiatry in general hospitals - developments and prospects
Abstract
Among the many recent developments in psychiatry there are a few basic currents that are running strongly-so strongly that, like a mighty river, they are changing the entire look uf the land-forming new channels and altering the topography of the psychiatric world. I mention just a few landmarks on the latest psychiatric map-the introduction of the new psychotropic drugs; the 'open door' policy of mental hospitals; the new British Mental Health Act of 1959; the Amsterdam community psychiatry plan; the swing to the community and the first day-hospitals in Canada and England in the early 1950's. All these have altered the look of psychiatry and it will never be the same again.
