title: Psychiatric Rehabilitation
author: Carlos W. Pratt
description: "This is a comprehensive textbook for students studying psychiatric rehabilitation either in a certification program or as part of allied health care training. Chapters are complete and well organized. Clinical examples and additional commentary are tied into the chapters, making the material easier to understand and apply."<br />- Doody Enterprises, Inc.
zlib_text: Rehabilitation
  Francis	J.	Braceland
  
  e-Book	2015	International	Psychotherapy	Institute
  From	American	Handbook	of	Psychiatry:	Volume	5	edited	by	Silvano	Arieti,	Daniel	X.	Freedman,	Jarl	E.
  Dyrud
  Copyright	©	1975	by	Basic	Books
  All	Rights	Reserved
  Created	in	the	United	States	of	America
  
  Table	of	Contents
  History
  Treatment	versus	Rehabilitation
  Rehabilitation	in	the	Community
  Addendum
  Bibliography
  
  Rehabilitation
  The	task	of	medicine	is	to	promote	health,	to	prevent	disease,	to	treat	the
  sick	 when	 prevention	 has	 broken	 down,	 and	 to	 rehabilitate	 the	 people
  after	they	have	been	cured.	These	are	highly	social	functions	and	we	must
  look	at	medicine	as	basically	a	social	science	(1943,	p.	241).
  Henry	E.	Sigerist
  To	 rehabilitate	 the	 people	 after	 they	 have	 been	 cured"	 is	 indeed,	 as
  Sigerist	 says,	 a	 highly	 social	 function,	 but	 it	 is	 more	 than	 that—it	 is	 an
  essential	part	of	treatment	and	it	has	a	quality	of	genuine	altruistic	concern
  about	 it.	 There	 are	 diff