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After the Asylums

by Elaine Murphy

Halfway housesMentally illRehabilitationMental DisordersTherapy [MESH]History [MESH]Mental Health Services [MESH]Mental Health [MESH]

As a result of government policy in the UK, some 100,000 people have left psychiatric hospitals in the last 30 years, but community places have only been provided for 15,000. The author examines the results and investigates how this situation can be improved.

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