Treatment for a variety of mental disorders begins

• This included psychosomatic conditions, depression, obsessional neurosis, drug addiction, anorexia, anxiety states and hysteria.
  The treatments were eclectic.
• There was interpretative therapy for long-term patients, while short-term patients were treated by education of persuasive methods.
• Patients were not encouraged to speak to the nurses about their illnesses, but to associate with the other patients to ‘relearn the value of cooperation’.
• Work such as keeping the cricket pitch and golf course tidy was encouraged.
• Organised games (cricket, golf and tennis) against neighbourhood clubs were also encouraged.

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