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Conversations With Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Roger Morgan
Roger Morgan*
Affiliation:
St Wulstans Hospital, Malvern, Worcs WR14 4JS
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Summary

An account is given of some of the topics discussed during a small informal weekly open group meeting of chronic schizophrenic patients, based on occasional notes compiled over eleven years. The main feature of the patients' condition as displayed was poverty—clinical, social, behavioural, material and financial—and certain features suggested an organic aetiology. Reasons are given for considering that the patients' condition was predominantly caused by schizophrenia rather than by institutionalism.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 134 , Issue 2 , February 1979 , pp. 187 - 194
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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