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This author (who could be descended from Galileo) dares to say that “some patients have rational reasons for wanting to remain in the hospital.” They should not be “shuttled back and forth between hospitals and communities like an unwanted consignment of goods.... Let us acknowledge the special needs of these patients openly and honestly.”
Although he was unaware of Priscilla Allen's eloquent statement of the consumer's point of view, Dr. Rosenblatt's professional opinions amazingly complement the first article in this issue. And he believes a way can be found to provide for people who “should” be on the outside (speaking moralistically) without sacrificing the hoped-for economies of reductions in hospital populations.
In our next issue we shall present a commentary covering three articles on this subject—the first two of this issue and Dr. Melvin Steinhart's “The Selling of Community Mental Health” (Vol. 47, No. 3, 1973).
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Rosenblatt, A. Providing custodial care for mental patients: An affirmative view. Psych Quar 48, 14–25 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574308
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