Integrated history in a psychiatric ward

Ann Ist Super Sanita. 1992;28(2):299-301.

Abstract

The present study begins from the hypothesis that the psychiatric admission can be considered to be, in many cases, a symptomatical act in which the patient, his family, the relational context that sends him and the institution as a whole take part. Such hypothesis has become necessary at the moment of the request for hospitalization, together with news from the patient and from his context about: the sender, the motivations, the type of request, the type of the insufficiency-urgency it is responding, the phenomenon of the "presenting disturbance", a greater definition of the problem by everyone... This work will have the object to look for a correlation between the course of the illness and the life cycle, to attempt to give a historicity of the crisis and the request of the hospitalization, too often presented, lived, received and cured as historically closed.

MeSH terms

  • Family Health*
  • Hospitalization*
  • Humans
  • Inpatients / psychology
  • Life Change Events
  • Medical History Taking*
  • Psychiatric Department, Hospital*