The Changing Mission of State Psychiatric Hospitals

November 11, 2002

This article originally appeared in Mental Health Issues Today, Volume 5, Number 3, published by PAREXEL, Centreville, Virginia. It is republished here with permission from the editor Coy Stout, and the publisher.

The Changing Mission of State Psychiatric Hospitals

Introduction

When considering the state psychiatric hospital in 2002, an image of a sprawling campus of buildings clustered around an old, Victorian-era “main building” comes to mind. Despite the closure, abandonment, and slow slip into decay of many of these institutions in the wake of deinstitutionalization, the state psychiatric hospital . . .