title: Conversations with chronic schizophrenic patients.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006127:Group Structure; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology