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Two Years' Experience of Group Methods in the Treatment of Male Alcoholics in a Scottish Mental Hospital
Author(s) -
Westfield D. R.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1972.tb01206.x
Subject(s) - mental hospital , general hospital , unit (ring theory) , psychiatry , psychiatric hospital , medicine , psychology , university hospital , family medicine , mathematics education
Summary An account is given of the creation and management of an in‐patient therapeutic programme for male alcoholics at Bellsdyke Hospital, Larbert, Stirlingshire, commencing with a selected group within a psychoneurotic unit which it was found necessary to convert into an unstaffed alcoholic unit with open admission procedure. Statistics over a two‐year period are provided and discussed. In the discussion which followed an attempt was made to answer a serifs of questions posed by the experience involved. For their advice and support in the preparation of this Paper, I would like to thank Dr. A. P. Russell., Physician Superintendent, Bellsdyke Hospital, Larbert; Dr. D. A. Pemberton, Consultant Psychiatrist, Bellsdyke Hospital, Larbert; Dr. A. B, Sclare, Consultant Psychiatrist, Eastern District Hospital, Glasgow; Professor Ferguson Rodger, Chair of Psychiatry. Glasgow University; and Dr. R. J. Simpson, Registrar in Psychiatry, Bellsdyke Hospital, Larbert.