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The Woodstock approach: one ward in Broadmoor Hospital for the treatment of personality disorder
Author(s) -
BRETT TIM R.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
criminal behaviour and mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1471-2857
pISSN - 0957-9664
DOI - 10.1002/cbm.1992.2.2.152
Subject(s) - personality , psychology , psychotherapist , personality disorders , borderline personality disorder , community hospital , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology
Patients with personality disorder, and treatments for them, tend to be scattered haphazardly through the special hospitals. Individual patients may have comprehensive personal treatment plans which may include one or more forms of psychotherapy, and they may participate in group therapy. One ward (Woodstock) in Broadmoor Hospital, however, provides an environment which is unusual in special hospitals for its comprehensive approach to psychotherapeutic working and expectations from the patients of commitment to the community which will show in their treatment and development. This paper describes that approach.