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A Home for the Heart / Bruno Bettelheim.

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pt. I. The idea of the mental hospital -- Ambience: buildings and their inhabitants -- The "secondary gain" as therapy -- Mental health, autonomy, and need-satisfaction -- Ambience: the structure of life -- pt. II. At the Orthogenic School -- Needed: an integrative model -- The eye of the beholder: architecture and locale -- The silent message: the unicorn and the phoenix -- The silent message: situational symbolism -- Living room and lebensraum: spatial messages -- Dormitories: group living and "territoriality" -- Dining room and bathroom: trauma and treatment -- The I of the beholder: pre-admission visits -- Receiving the newcomer: a social transition -- pt. III. Creating the therapeutic milieu -- From pilgrimage to pschoanalytic setting -- Experiements in total treatment design -- Staff organization and unity -- Common sense organized -- pt. IV. Staff -- Staff selection--in depth -- Opening up to the patient -- Staff: joining the community -- The total involvement of staff members -- Reintegration: the staff member against himself -- Personal change and professional growth -- The inward journey.
Abstract Describes work at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School of the University of Chicago.

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RJ504.5.B46

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NEWYORK : Knopf., 1974

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x, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0394483774

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Pediatrics
Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School. University of C

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