...R.D. Hinshelwood Purpose Psychiatry in its traditional form, often relegates the patient to a passive recipient, and removes his/her agency. The paper aims to examine the reasons for this and the value of it from a largely theoretical perspective. Design/methodology/approach The literature...

... Therapeutic community Psychiatry Day patients Communities Patient care Organizational change United Kingdom The Day Community at the Marlborough Hospital ceased in December 1978, ending a phase in the life of an institution famed for its role in social psychiatry. It innovated psychiatric day...