Kaplan H M, Bohr R H
Community Ment Health J. 1976 Fall;12(3):244-51. doi: 10.1007/BF01419750.
An analysis of the current roles of the federally funded community mental health center and the public mental hospital suggests that despite the rhetoric about a community mental health revolution, the mental field has yet to undergo significant change. Ideological, political, economic, and structural barriers-characteristics of the field itself-impede such change outside, inside, and across the centers and hospitals. Recent court decisions on patients' rights, however, have the potential for moving the field into a period where "bold new action" actually can occur.