Occupational Treatment of Mental Illness

Abstract

as by those more intimately associated with the care of the insane. Dr. Rees Thomas (one of the Commissioners of the Board of Control) who writes the Foreword, points out that the occupation of patients in mental hospitals in this country has been practised for one hundred years or so, but fails to draw the reader's attention to the fact that this has been limited to willing patients, representing on an average about 30 per cent, of the total. This is a very different thing to what is meant to-day by " occupational therapy " in its true sense, as those who read this book will learn.