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The Psychiatric Patient in America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2018
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This paper is based on a year's psychotherapeutic experience during 1950–51 in a well-known psychiatric clinic in America.
The psychiatric patient in the United States, like his brother and sister elsewhere, may be regarded from one viewpoint as a product of his culture. It has been said that the American scene is compounded of an unorganized mass of atypicalities; but, in fact, certain broad cultural trends are discernible. A brief look at the background of social and family patterns will help to give some insight into the psychic apparatus of the sick as well as the healthy person.
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953
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