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Types of authority and two problems of psychiatric wards

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This paper concerns the relationship between authority structures and two “problems” reported in the literature as common to “milieu” or “therapeutic community” wards. Psychiatric wards with rational-legal and charismatic authority structures are found more likely to experience mood and morale swings on the part of patients and staff and to spend excessive time and energy changing ward rules.

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  1. Departments of Psychiatry and Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin

    James R. Greenley Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)

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Greenley, J.R. Types of authority and two problems of psychiatric wards. Psych Quar 47, 191–202 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01562225

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