Long-term psychiatric treatment.
Is long term psychiatric care superfluous? Can it be provided by non medical therapists? This paper examines this question from the perspective of one patient who was in therapy for 20 years.
Seeman
M V
MV
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000523:psychology; D001143:Arousal; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*