Are we witnessing the rebirth of ‘lunatic asylums’? In contrast to how psychiatry developed in the West, psychiatric institutionalisation persists in the Arab world – in fact, psychiatric hospitals have continued to grow in size. Dr Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Researcher, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, reflects on the reasons for this absence of deinstitutionalisation.
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