Word: allan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emma B. got up and dressed, joined the rest of the household for breakfast, then caught a bus to an old stone mansion on Montreal's Pine Avenue. At 34, Emma looked like any other secretary going to work. But her destination was no office: it was the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry. There, from 9 to 5, Emma was a mental patient. In the evening, she took the bus home again...
...what she was holding, finally let all the air out with a giant sigh. Afraid of suffocating, she had spent years going from doctor to doctor, finally quit her work. Last October, a neurologist decided that her trouble was emotional, referred her to Montreal's famed Allan Institute...
...that Emma B. needed more treatment than he could give her as an outpatient, but not enough to require admission to the full-time inpatient hospital. Since she could stay with relatives in Montreal, she was an ideal subject for the in-between type of care offered by the Allan's day hospital, founded by Director D. Ewen Cameron in 1946, and first of its kind in North America...
Full-time hospitalization would have cost her at least twice as much as the $137 (plus doctors' fees) that she paid at the Allan day hospital...
...emotional illness "give up" and accept full-time hospitalization is their desire to escape from the world. Being shut away may make this worse instead of better. So Dr. Cameron also uses the day hospital as a weaning station or halfway house for patients who have been in the Allan Institute's full-time hospital and need help in readjusting to the world at large. For patients who might find the transition from the day hospital to life "on the outside" too abrupt, the Allan Institute has just added a "three-quarter-way house": an evening treatment center where...