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An Alternative to Hospitalization for Acute Mental Disorders

The History of Psychiatric Home Hospitalization in the US.

Awais Aftab -a US psychiatrist has been described by Lancet Psychiatry as one of the foremost public individuals in the discipline. After learning about Psychiatric Home Hospitalization from one of my X posts, he offered to write an article about it on his Substack : Psychiatry at the Margins.

This is my commentary he invited me to write.

 The History of Psychiatric Hospitalization at Home in the US