10
RECOVERY OF
HEALTH IS POSSIBLE
Sources:
J. Sanbourne Bockoven, Moral Treatment
in American Psychiatry (Springer
Publishing, 1972); Nathaniel Lehrman, “A State Hospital Population Five Years After Admission,” Psychiatric
Quarterly 34 (1960):658-681; H.L.
Rachlin, “Follow-up Study of 317 Patients discharged from Hillside Hospital in 1950,” Journal of Hillside Hospital 5 (1956): 17-40; J. Sanbourne Bockoven, “Comparison of
Two Five-Year Follow-Up Studies:
1947 to 1952 and 1967 to 1972,” American
Journal of Psychiatry 132
(1975):796-801; William Carpenter, Jr., “The Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia Without Drugs,” American Journal of Psychiatry 134 (1977):
14-20; and Maurice Rappaport, “Are There Schizophrenics for Whom Drugs May Be Unnecessary or Contraindicated?”
International Psychopharmacopsychiatry
13 (1978):100-111.
73%
3
41
1970s
Rappaport,
1978
65%
1
27
1970s
Carpenter,
1977
52%
4
317
1950
Rachlin,
1956
45%
5
100
1947
Bockoven,
1975
44%
5
2,941
1943-44
Lehrman,
1960
48%
40+
1,173
1833-1846
Bockoven,
1972
Never
Relapsed
Study
Period (yrs)
No.
of Patients
Treatment
Years
Researcher
Stay-Well
Rates for Patients Treated Without Neuroleptics
(from
Robert Whitaker, Mad in America, 2002, p. 185)