title: [The deinstitutionalization process in the United States (Part 1).].
abstract: In this first article, the author analyses the socio-e-conomico-political conditions that have led to the closing of 78.5 % of beds in American asylums in the last 30 years. The author goes on to show how the U.S. government used legislative and fiscal measures to accomplish its deinstitutionalization policy, a policy also influenced by court battles spearheaded by psychiatric patients and their supporters.
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authors.lastname: Lecomte