[Psychiatric long-term hospitalization--and how does life go on?]

Problems of longterm psychiatric hospitalisation are represented at the example of the topical supply situation in the mental hospital Bezirksnervenklinik Haldensleben. By means of a shown catalogue of symptoms from longterm psychiatric hospitalised patients tasks of care and inferences are discussed under the aspect, that the living and therapy conditions respectively their structures of the psychical sick persons authenticately show reactions on the course of illness and attendance. A lot of graduated care-offers in form of a therapeutical network first of all open a social reintegration in regard of individual and reality. At the same time hence it follows the chance for modifications in the psychiatric hospital.