The Place of Psychiatry in the Program of a Tuberculosis Hospital

¹ The National Jewish Hospital and the Mental Hygiene Clinic of the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado.

We would emphasize that all of the aspects of psychiatric service which we have outlined above are important, and need to be effectively integrated in the development of a sound program of psychiatry in a tuberculosis hospital. For example, we would regard it as a forlorn hope to attempt to carry out a limited teaching program in the psychiatric aspects of tuberculosis, and expect that it could then be applied without the continued participation of a psychiatrist and psychiatrically oriented social worker.

We therefore stress the need for continuity of a program as we have outlined it, and also the need to orient such a program on the basis of a concept of participant psychiatry.