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More than a decade of experience with therapeutic communities in hospital settings makes it appropriate for me to evaluate them. I have been in a position to observe the therapeutic effectiveness and the potential damaging effects of the treatment methods. The therapeutic community has deeply transformed the more traditional types of hospital milieu treatment, opened new roads to the inpatient treatment of severe character pathology, and shed new light on the optimal administrative requirements for psychiatric hospitals. Some of these new insights were not only unforeseen, but unintended.
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Kernberg, O.F. (1982). Advantages and Liabilities of the Therapeutic Community. In: Pines, M., Rafaelsen, L. (eds) The Individual and the Group. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9239-6_47
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