Psychosis and destitution at Christmas 1985-88
- PMID: 2574780
- DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(89)92946-2
Psychosis and destitution at Christmas 1985-88
Abstract
Surveys of the destitute were conducted over four successive Christmas periods in Central London, UK. Functional psychosis with hallucinations and/or delusions, either current (19%) or in the past (22%), were associated with extreme social isolation and imprisonment.
Comment in
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Closure of psychiatric hospitals.Lancet. 1990 Jan 20;335(8682):172-3. doi: 10.1016/0140-6736(90)90047-9. Lancet. 1990. PMID: 1967465 No abstract available.
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