| Author: | Horace Hill, M.R.C.P., |
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Medical Superintendent, Laverstock House, Salisbury. Bennet Bros., The Journal Office, Canal, Salisbury, 1/6.
This little book is based on long experience in dealing with mental patients and their relatives, and contains information and advice of the kind that should be of real help to anyone confronted with the practical issues raised by mental breakdown. Dr Hill seeks to disabuse his readers of the idea that there is a special " stigma" attached to this type of illness and to urge a new attitude towards it which will prevent hesitancy to procure the skilled early treatment upon which so much depends.
The subject is treated in the simplest possible manner, and in an almost colloquial style and the booklet could be used with advantage by the social worker or the general practitioner in discussing with relatives the many and urgent problems which mental illness brings in its train.