ABSTRACT
The Unit staff attempt to implement their ideology through a system of organized activities. Each kind of activity can be seen in terms of its function with reference to the ideology of treatment and rehabilitation. Viewed atomistically, each also has a separate history in the Unit and in the profession as a whole. The general tendency among the Unit staff, however, is to view the programme of activities as an organic whole in which each of the parts derives its principal meaning from its place in the total pattern. Unit staff make statements like the following:
‘The Unit treatment is like a symphony; each person’s contribution, singly or in groups, is like the contribution to music made by the parts of a symphony orchestra.’
