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  • Front Cover
  • Institutional Neurosis
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • FOREWORD
  • CHAPTER 1. CONSIDERATION, CLINICAL FEATURES, AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL NEUROSIS
  • Clinical Features
  • Differential Diagnosis
  • CHAPTER 2. AETIOLOGY OR FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INSTITUTIONAL NEUROSIS
  • CHAPTER 3. CONSIDERATION OF THE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INSTITUTIONAL NEUROSIS
  • 1. Loss of Contact with the Outside World
  • 2. Enforced Idleness
  • 3. Bossiness of Medical and Nursing Staff
  • 4�A� Loss of Personal Friends, Possessions, and Personal Events5�A� Drugs
  • 6. Ward Atmosphere
  • 7. Loss of Prospects Outside the Institution
  • CHAPTER 4. TREATMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL NEUROSIS: CORRECTION OF THE VARIOUS FACTORS
  • Outside Hospital
  • Hospital Staff
  • 1. Re-establishment of Patients' Contacts
  • 2. Provision of Daily Sequence of Useful Occupations, Recreations, and Social Events 14 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week
  • 3. Alteration of the Attitude of Medical and Nursing Staff
  • 4. Encourage and make it possible for a Patient to have Friends, Possessions, and to enjoy Personal Events5�A� Reduction of Drugs
  • 6. Provision of a Homely, Friendly, Permissive Ward Atmosphere
  • 7. Make the Patient aware of Prospects of Accommodation, Work, and Friends outside Hospital
  • SUMMARY
  • REFERENCES