Discharged from a mental health admission ward: is it safe to go home? A review on the negative outcomes of psychiatric hospitalization
Before psychiatry emerged as a medical discipline, hospitalizing individuals with mental disorders was more of a social stigmatizing act than a therapeutic act. After the birth of the mental health disciplines, psychiatric hospitalization was legitimized and has proven to be indispensable, preventin...
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Dove Medical Press
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011897/ |