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Edited by Ellen Leibenluft, Allan Tasman, and Stephen A. Green. 321 pp. $42.50. ISBN 0-88048-512-4.

In the United States today, when a person's behavior deviates sufficiently from the accepted norm to frighten or threaten others and it is determined that the behavior stems from a mental disorder, that person will most likely be placed in an inpatient psychiatry unit, a ward in or a section of a general hospital.

Ellen Leibenluft, senior editor of Less Time to Do More, claims that a revolution in the management of these units has taken place within the past 10 years. It has been manifested, she says, by a drastic shortening of the length of hospitalization, the occurrence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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