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Mentally Ill Persons

Known as: Person, Mentally Ill, Mentally Ill, Mentally Ill Person 
Persons with psychiatric illnesses or diseases, particularly psychotic and severe mood disorders.
National Institutes of Health

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Commitment of Mentally IllMental disordersbehavioral and mental disorderlegislation & jurisprudence

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Mentally Disabled Persons

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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Use of a brief behavioral skills intervention to prevent HIV infection among chronic mentally ill adults.
OBJECTIVE Research shows that many chronic psychiatric patients are at risk for infection by the human immunodeficiency virus… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
The Roscommon Family Study. IV. Affective illness, anxiety disorders, and alcoholism in relatives.
OBJECTIVES This report seeks to evaluate the specificity of the familial liability to schizophrenia by examining in the relatives… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Resolutions of control episodes between well and affectively ill mothers and their young children
Control interactions between 87 well and affectively ill mothers and their 15- to 51-month-old children were studied… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The criminality of the mentally ill: a dangerous misconception.
A longstanding controversy is the relative dangerousness and criminality of the mentally ill. The author presents observational… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Personal networks of ex-mental patients in a Manhattan SRO hotel.
This paper describes the results of the first systematic investigation of ex-mental patients residing in a large Manhattan Single… 
Review
1974
Review
1974
The recidivism of mental patients: a review of past studies.
A review of studies on readmission of patients to mental hospitals uncovered only one variable that consistently predicted the… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Determinants of the decision for psychiatric hospitalization.
IN THE recent history of American psychiatry, the use of the hospital as a therapeutic intervention in the treatment of mental… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Effects of the child's deficiency on the mother: a study of mothers of mentally retarded, chronically ill and neurotic children.
Comparison of selected personality features of four groups of mothers supported the common clinical observation that having a… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
MENTAL HEALTH'S THIRD REVOLUTION.
There have been three mental health revolutions. Pinel led the first, bringing humane concern for the mentally ill; Freud led the… 
Highly Cited
1942
Highly Cited
1942
The mask of sanity.
Psychotic disorders may be concealed behind outer manifestations that give little or no suggestion of anything so serious. The… 
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