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I agree—the title is a mouthful! But it’s an important concept in psychiatry practice. “Transinstitutionalization” is a single-word description of the movement of individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) in the 1960s and beyond from psychiatric hospitals to prison. The term was coined by Lionel Penrose in 1939, who recognized that as the number ofContinue reading “Transinstitutionalization – Whew!”