After the Hospital the Real Treatment Begins

• By: Steven Shainmark, MD St. Vincent’s Hospital Westchester
• April 1st, 2009
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It is often in the period following an inpatient psychiatric hospitalization that the “real treatment” begins. After stabilizing the most severe symptoms that compromise a patient’s functioning, the patient and his or her therapist must then collaborate on the next steps that will help to...