New Programs in the Old Asylum: The Deinstitutionalization of Long-Term Psychiatric Hospital Patients in Argentina

Large psychiatric hospitals with inpatients interned for decades are still the norm in Argentina, where deinstitutionalization and community-based mental health care is almost inexistent. This thesis focuses on some changes taking place in a centenary psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires province: t...

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Main Author: Dillon, Erica
Other Authors: Helen Regis
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2006
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06102006-003016/