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Three Weeks in Isolation with Two Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Roger Morgan
Roger Morgan*
Affiliation:
St Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire
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Summary

An account is given of impressions and observations collected during three weeks in November 1975 which the writer spent with two of his chronic schizophrenic patients in a purpose-built isolation unit inside which it was impossible to have any idea of the real time.

This experience gave the observer an unusually close view of schizophrenic and institutional behaviour and some insight into the natural outcome of staff-patient interaction.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 5 , November 1977 , pp. 504 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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