In 1939, the geneticist and psychiatrist Lionel Penrose first offered his hypothesis that the number of psychiatric beds was inversely associated with the incarceration rate of individuals with mental illness.¹ Since then, the answer to the question “How many psychiatric hospital beds do developed nations need?” remains controversial and unclear. In the United States during the era of asylum psychiatry, the answer was many, very many, beds. By 1955, the United States reached the apex of asylum psychiatry, with more than 550 000 individuals in psychiatric hospitals.

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无床精神病学-重建行为健康服务能力

1939年，遗传学家和精神病医生莱昂内尔·彭罗斯（Lionel Penrose）首次提出了他的假设，即精神病床的数量与精神疾病患者的监禁率成反比。¹从那时起，对“发达国家需要多少张精神科病床？”这一问题的答案。仍存在争议和不清楚。在美国庇护精神病学时代，答案是很多很多床。到1955年，美国达到了庇护精神病学的最高点，在精神病医院有55万多人。