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E Fuller Torrey
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Esquizofrenia
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“Unfortunately, the mental health centers legislation passed by Congress was fatally flawed. It encouraged the closing of state mental hospitals without and realistic plan regarding what would happen to the discharged patients, especially those who refused to take the medication they needed to remain well. It included no plan for the future funding of the community mental health centers. It focused resources on prevention when nobody understood enough about mental illnesses to know how to prevent them. And by bypassing the states, it guaranteed that future services would not be coordinated.”
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“Before addressing these specific problems, it should be noted that one concept underlies all rehabilitation efforts—hope. If the individual with schizophrenia has hope, then rehabilitation efforts are likely to succeed. If the person has no hope, these efforts are likely to fail. This was shown in a recent Swiss study of forty-six individuals with schizophrenia in which poor rehabilitation outcomes were predicted by “pessimistic outcome expectancies . . . and depressive-resigned coping strategies,” in short, “whether the patient has already given up or not.” Treatment and rehabilitation programs will succeed, therefore, only insofar as they also engender hope.”
― Surviving Schizophrenia, 7th Edition: A Family Manual
― Surviving Schizophrenia, 7th Edition: A Family Manual
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