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Mental illness is one of the ‘new’ conditions that have filled the vacuum created by the control of ‘old’ diseases. Whether the increase has been real or apparent is uncertain but the facts are that modern medical care at all levels has to be prepared and able to manage more of these disorders than in the past. The increase has occurred in the psychoneuroses as distinct from the more severe psychoses, and within the psychoneuroses it is the affective disorders, and in particular depression, that has increased in step with social advance and better standards of health and welfare.
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© 1969 Dr. John Fry
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Fry, J. (1969). Mental Health Care. In: Medicine in Three Societies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6109-1_10
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