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Impressions of Scandinavian Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. Harris*
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital

Extract

The Hospital System.—In all three Scandinavian countries there are two main types of hospital catering for psychiatric patients, the mental hospital proper resembling closely in its style and function the institutions of that name to which we are accustomed in Great Britain and the psychiatric clinic, a department of a general hospital. All three countries also have institutions for the mentally defective, Denmark and Sweden ones for criminal psychopaths and Sweden ones for the treatment of alcoholic addiction.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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