Home Care of the Mental Patient
- Author:
Dr Arie Querido,
Head of the Department of Social Psychiatry, City of Amsterdam. With a Foreword by R. D. Gillespie, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician for Psychological Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London. Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford. 2/6.
This little book of 93 short pages, is intended ?to quote from Dr Gillespie’s Foreword?” to convey in simple language to the man in the street an understanding of the behaviour and the ways of thinking of those who are ill in their minds rather than in their bodies.”
It is divided into six chapters?” The Concept of Insanity and the Care of the Insane ” The Subject Outlined ” Diseases of the Intellectual Faculties ” Diseases of the Emotional Life ” Diseases of the Structure of the Personality ” Disharmonic Personalities,”? and the author has skilfully avoided the use of any of the labels given by psychological medicine to these various disorders.
This simplicity of presentation makes the book eminently readable by those who are unfamiliar with technical terms, and its sympathetic tone should help towards a better understanding of mentally ill people. ” Insanity is loneliness,” the author maintains, and while clearly indicating the difficulties of dealing with a mental patient in his own home circle and the necessity of removal in advanced cases, he seeks to show how greatly the situation can be helped if the right attitude?born of a loving regard and an intelligent appreciation of the issues involved?is adopted by relatives and friends. A.L.H.
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