The Population Problem

This letter highlights that the psychiatric profession is increasingly committed to the community mental health concept, which in part implies greater involvement with the socially and economically disadvantaged. Numerous recent articles have dealt with the many dimensions of community psychiatry, b...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1967-04, Vol.37 (3), p.624-625
Main Author: Fischer, Ames
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community Mental Health
Family Planning
Human
Mental Health
Professional Development
Psychiatry
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Summary:This letter highlights that the psychiatric profession is increasingly committed to the community mental health concept, which in part implies greater involvement with the socially and economically disadvantaged. Numerous recent articles have dealt with the many dimensions of community psychiatry, but not with the vital issues of planned parenthood and psychiatry's relationship to it. Our profession has no policy statement, even though the goal of psychiatric treatment is to work with people so as to free them to make more rational and effective choices for themselves. Yet the poorer and less educated persons are generally ignorant of family planning and unable to afford it; for the therapist to remain uninvolved with this issue makes him a party to constricting the patient's freedom of choice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1967.tb00500.x