Comment on Kiesler's "Public and Professional Myths…"

Contends that C. A. Kiesler (see record 1983-24077-001) has drawn too many inferences based on incomplete and inaccurate analyses in his article on public and professional myths about mental hospitalization. Specifically, the present authors differ with Kiesler's contention that mental hospitalization is increasing, his implicit assumption that episodes of mental disorder in general hospitals without psychiatric units are equivalent to those in general hospitals with such units, and his comparison of effects of hospitalization for mental illness vs alternate modes of care. (3 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)