Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1958 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

This first full account of the problems posed by deinstitutionalization of chronic schizophrenic patients reports on innovations in hospital treatment and community-based aftercare, housing and community residence programs, counseling for families of schizophrenic patients, and the available methods of psychiatric, psychosocial, and parmacologic therapy, including psychiatric outpatient services.