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Alternatives to Psychiatric Hospitalisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Digby Tantam
Digby Tantam*
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Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester M20 8LR
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Battles have always been a feature of psychiatry, and the traditional hegemony of the hospital has been contested particularly often. Mosher (1983) has made one of the most recent major incursions into enemy territory on behalf of the community care guerillas, in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 146 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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