Conjugal psychiatric hospitalization.
A heterosexual couple, both with multiple prior hospitalizations, was hospitalized in the same room at the Douglas Hospital, Montreal. Both patients had previously been extremely difficult to treat. While this approach was instituted with wariness by the ward's staff, the hospitalization proved to be highly beneficial for the couple as well as having certain positive effects on the ward in general. It is suggested that this therapeutic approach be considered in certain specialized cases.
D000184:Acting Out; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment