[Deinstitutionalization of chronic psychiatric patients exemplified by a public psychiatric hospital].

Basing on the multifarious phenomena of hospitalism in chronically mentally ill patients the authors report on a survey of known facts and analyses to enable focussing of appropriate on-target measures were taken to arrive at conclusions for caring for these long-term patients: 1. Fixing the deadline of the study; 2. Determining the quality of patient care; 3. Analysing the experiences collected in respect of the integrated training programme to promote cognitive, communicative and social abilities and skills among the patients in resident living quarters within the confines of the hospital. An attempt is made to arrive at an overall evaluation of the measures taken so far in respect of de-hospitalisation and in building up complementary settlements outside the hospital but close to communal institutions.