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The hospital as a form of treatment for the severely ill psychiatric patient is always expensive and inefficient, frequently antitherapeutic, and never the treatment of choice.
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Mendel, W.M. (1976). The Case for Closing of the Hospitals. In: Ahmed, P.I., Plog, S.C. (eds) State Mental Hospitals. Current Topics in Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4265-6_3
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