title: Historical notes on partial hospitalization.
abstract: The author addresses the historical antecedents of three important aspects of partial hospitalization: (1) therapeutic use of the milieu, (2) decentralization of hospital-based care, and (3) a pluralistic view of the human organism. In the process, a tour d'horizon of Western psychiatry from the period of Phillipe Pinel to that of Adolf Meyer is provided. Such an excursion into history permits a greater appreciation of the partial hospital setting and the relevance of history in the evolution of psychiatric thinking.
authors: Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS 66601.
authors: D L
authors: DL
authors: Goldman
mesh_terms: D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D005060:Europe; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014481:United States