'Togetherness' Seen Vital Ingredient In Modern Approach To Mental Health Problem
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By HELENA FROST
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NEW YORK i.NEAi-Living is
rough for most of us in this orld
of tensions. It is very rough for
the mentally ill.
And it is not good enough to
salvage them and then throw
them back to sink or swim.
They need help to swim again
or for the first time; because peo
ple who need psychiatric care do
not really have the confidence to
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This is . the general reasoning
of those who are' working to safe
guard the recovering mental pa
tient against rehospitalization.
Dr. Donald M. Carmichael, di
rector of Aftercare Clinics in New
York City for the New York
State Department of .Mental Hy
giene, summarizes thinking about
aftercare and rehabilitation this
way:
"It is necessary for many pa
tients to be hospitalized, but af
tercare is just as necessary. You
need a convalescent program to
help the patient stay out of the
hospital.' Medical aftercare, psy
chotherapy, vocational and social
rehabilitation any or all may be
necessary to help him take a use
ful place in the community.
President Kennedy's program
for mental health, proposed to
Congress, 'is founded on the com
munity. Dr. Carmichael believes that
state and local mental health as
sociations are in a unique position
to bring a concerned community
into the "comprehensive commu
nity mental health centers" de
scribed by the President.
Social and legal stigma arc
deeply rooted in the long and tra
gichistory of mental illness. Men
tal health associations have beer,
helping to change the harsh and
antiquated laws governing admis
sion to mental hospitals, while
the parent organization, the Na1
tional Association for Mental
Health, has sustained a steady
educational barrage against pub
lic rejection and lethargy. As
result, community concern
growing in certain stales; and the
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gin to germinate.
Satisfaction is too mild a word
to describe Dr. Carmichael's feel
ing about the law just passed bv
the New York legislature. He
said: "At long last a -patient can
enter a menial hospital informal
ly, w ithout signing any document.
And he can also leave whenever
he wants to. -This means that a
man suffering from a mental or
emotional disorder can ask for
help exactly as he wuuid for uail-
stones or an ulcer."
This has been a fact of life
in Britain since the 1959 Mental
Health Bill. More than 80 per cent
of mental patients in British hos
pitals are there by choice and as
Dr. Carmichael points out:
"Stigma has been eliminated,
and that's very important. Wlien
a patient enters a hospital volun
tarily, he and his family enter
into partnership with the hospital
personnel. The doctor can draw
upon tlie patient's innate capa
city for self-help, and nothing is
more important as we have dis
covered here."
"Here" is the Brooklyn Day
Hospital, a subsidiary service for
the Aftercare Clinics. A clinic mav
deckle that a patient needs addi
tional intensive treatment at the
Day Center.
The patients prefer to call it a
"Center," just as they think of
themselves as "members," and
their activities as "classes" or
"meetings."
"It's not a question of seman
tics," said Dr. Floyd W. Carneal,
psychiatrisl-in-charge of the Day
Center. "The terminology. . the
popping .out to the corner drug-)
store for lunch, running their own
meetings, conducting social func
tions and outings it's all good
tlierapy. They learn to live with
others, to take responsibility In
their community . . ,
A sheltered community, a thera
peutic community, yes but still
a community and one that runs
with remarkably little disorder. It
is fascinating and heartwarming1
to spend a day at tlie Center.
At a Therapeutic Community
Meeting, attended by all patients
and staff members, a young worn
;an said, "! think wc ought to have
membership cards." Another ex
pressed civic concern about the
I fire hazard of paper discarded in
I ashtrays. Someone' suggested a
system of fines and someone re
plied, "We don't punish people
here." And w hen a member com
plained she was always "left out
of things," there was swift con
cern and understanding, a flood
of suggestions to. make the girl
feel less rejected.
The Brooklyn Day Center has a
full 9:30 to 4:30 day of activities
which arc planned to meet each
patient's individual needs. "Our
occupational tlierapy program
stresses practical skills," Dr. Cor
neal said. "Some learn electronics,
others dress-making and milli
nery, typing and stenography
anything that will help them find
a job."
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Grass Fire Extinguished
City firemen extinguished a
grass fire on the bank of the
government canal, along the
1100 block of High Street, about
10:02 p.m., in one of two calls
answered by tile Klamath Falls
Fire Department Wednesday.
Tne fire was reported by a per
son who observed youngsters set
the canal bank atiro ami then flee,
firemen said.
At 9: 10 a.m.. firemen were sum
moned tu a fire alarm box that
had been accidentally set off when
a utility company employe scaled
a telephone pole to which the
box w as attached.
The alarm may have been set
off by the swaying motion of the
pole as the worker was scaling
it. firemen reported.
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