ABSTRACT
In the United States, many of the facilities have been publicly maintained for generations as community-wide resources for both practical and moral reasons. Both treatment within the community and concern with the less dramatic disorders of everyday living have focused attention on outpatient psychiatry in the community mental-health movement. Diversification imposes a serious organizational strain on community mental-health leaders. This chapter discusses the plans call for the integration of all services: outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization rehabilitation, twenty-four-hour emergency, and other services. It describes the second movement within the mental-health field as the Friends and Supporters of Psychotherapy. The chapter shows that office patients tend to be intellectuals, artists, and professionals, often of a literary bent, and frequently Jewish, whereas the Protestant businessman is more characteristic of the lay leadership in the mental-hygiene group. This chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
