EARLY AND LATE REHABILITATION OF PSYCHOSIS

We have tried to present the differences in methodology and organization between early and late rehabilitation on the basis of five years’ experience in a psychiatric hospital. The conclusion was that, as early rehabilitation becomes more effective, late rehabilitation can be reserved increasingly for primary schizophrenic processes, while the traditional hospital psychiatry will tend to concentrate on the management of patients with organic defects. A first essential for this is the creation of the open therapeutic community, which should be coordinated with extramural facilities for social psychiatry. © 1969 S. Karger AG, Basel.